Os X Flash Player Virus Software Will Detect

Even if you dont run Flash on your computer, youve surely seen the many headlines in the tech media over the years of the importance of keeping Adobe Flash (and its Acrobat PDF Reader stablemate) updated to protect against malicious attack.

Instead, social engineering is being used to trick the unsuspecting user into unwittingly downloading and running a bogus version of Adobe Flash designed to infect their computer with scareware.

In all, Integos research team say that they have found 492 occurrences of malware using the identifier and developer ID, dating back to at least April 2015.

Commonly, however, they have been seen offering a variety of products including freeware, shareware and open source tools.

Os X Flash Player Virus Software Will Detect

When Intego VirusBarrier real-time scanning is enabled with up-to-date malware definitions, the anti-virus software will detect and eraticate this malware, identified as OSXInstallMiez.

You can encounter the out of date Flash pop-ups and be fine so long as you do not choose to install them.

For Intego VirusBarrier customers who have real-time scanning enabled, sometimes it will detect the DMG file directly, but other times it may detect something inside the DMG file in which real-time scanning will not activate unless you open the installer to start the installation process.

What you may be encountering are variants of the pop-up alert scam we see happening a lot right now.

For more details about this pop-up alert scam, see our Knowledge Base article.

Graham Cluley is an award-winning security blogger, researcher and public speaker.

He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by companies such as Sophos, McAfee and Dr Solomons.

He has given talks about computer security for some of the worlds largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and regularly appears on TV and radio explaining computer security threats.

Graham Cluley was inducted into the InfoSecurity Europe Hall of Fame in 2011, and was given an honorary mention in the 10 Greatest Britons in IT History for his contribution as a leading authority in internet security.

This entry was posted in Malware, Recommended, Security News and tagged Adobe Flash, Fake Flash Player, malware, OSXInstallCore, OSXInstallMiez, scareware.