Flashback virus here.... now gone ???

Hi all,
I recently posted one of the trillions of discussions regarding the Flashback virus here:
file://localhost/Users/michaelm/Desktop/Power%20PC%20apps%20crash%20on%20startup %20in%20OS...-%20Apple%20Support%20Communities.webloc
I confirmed that my 10.5.8 Leopard run Mac Pro did indeed have the virus. All the behaviors were there: Power PC/Rosetta run apps were crashing on start up and the Terminal utility showed the presence of the dreaded DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES. After that, I was out of town for about a week and the Mac Pro was shut down for that period and upon my return, I was to wipe and reinstall to start fresh. While away, I read some more articles about the virus and some remedies and removal techniques, so I returned home hopeful that the wipe and reinstall would not be necessary.
But.... when I fired up the Mac Pro today after a week of being shut down, it seems the virus was gone. ??? Is this possible? I entered the following lines in Terminal and got 'does not exist' on all of them!
defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
My older Power PC/Rosetta run apps started up fine with no crashes. I also turned off Java in Safari preferences. So the question is, what to do now? Should I immediately update to 10.6 Snow Leopard (I have too many Rosetta run apps right now to shift to Lion) and get all native softwares up to date? I would imagine that Snow Leopard would be safer at this point than my old Leopard. Should I install a Mac virus protection app as well? Should I also keep Java OFF at all times?
Thanks! Mike

Hi Mike, this thing is changing, so it may even move itself around, or uninstall some things to hide or change itself.
Disable Java in your Browser settings, not JavaScript.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5241?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=142064
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/How%20to%20turn%20off%20Java%20applets
Flashback - Detect and remove the uprising Mac OS X Trojan...
http://www.mac-and-i.net/2012/04/flashback-detect-and-remove-uprising.html
In order to avoid detection, the installer will first look for the presence of some antivirus tools and other utilities that might be present on a power user's system, which according to F-Secure include the following:
/Library/Little Snitch
/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
/Applications/VirusBarrier X6.app
/Applications/iAntiVirus/iAntiVirus.app
/Applications/avast!.app
/Applications/ClamXav.app
/Applications/HTTPScoop.app
/Applications/Packet Peeper.app
If these tools are found, then the malware deletes itself in an attempt to prevent detection by those who have the means and capability to do so. Many malware programs use this behavior, as was seen in others such as the Tsunami malware bot.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57410096-263/how-to-remove-the-flashback-ma lware-from-os-x/
http://x704.net/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5844&p=70660#p70660
The most current flashback removal instructions are F-Secure's Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.K.
Check now whether your Mac is infected by Backdoor.Flashback.39!
http://public.dev.drweb.com/april/

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