New OS X malware masquerades as flash upgrade

There is a new mac os x trojan which tricks the user by posing as a flash upgrade. I downloaded a file which may be the trojan last week. It is called install_flash_player_osx_intel.dmg, and it is size 6,376,888 bytes. Today I went to get.adobe.com manually and downloaded the legitimate install_flash_player_osx_intel.dmg, and it is size 6,365,350 bytes.
I also acquired an application last Wednesday at the same time as the install_flash_player_osx_intel.dmg appeared, called 'Adobe Flash Player Install Manager' in my /Applications/Utilities directory.
Is the 6,376,888 bytes file legit? Is '/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Flash Player Install Manager' legit? Is there any published hash values for adobe software or other tools to ensure that what users download is the real software?
(Is everyone -- like me -- who turned on the 'Check for updates automatically' in the Flash pane of System Preferences a complete fool? Ok, I know the answer to that. *sigh*)

> Is '/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Flash Player Install Manager' legit?
Using flashplayer11_rc1_install_mac_090611.dmg from Adobe, Install Adobe Flash Player.app does write to that path. Here's an fseventer view of things:

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Flash Player version 10.1.102.64 is the last version available to PPC Mac users. However, this Flash version won't work for many videos on Facebook, YouTube and other sites. Adobe's latest version, 10.2.x or later, is only for Intel Macs. Adobe will not provide a newer Flash version for PPC Macs.
The message requesting that you download Adobe Flash Player takes you to Flash Player requiring an Intel processor. Doesn't work on a PowerPC processor. I found a hack, installed it & it works with Firefox, TenFourFox & Safari.
Download this http://www.steelbin.com/FPforFBPPC.zip to your desktop, unzip it, and replace the current Flash Player plug-in which is in your main/Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder, (not the user Library). Save the old one just in case this one doesn't work.
Hack Allows PowerPC Macs to Access Flash 11 Content
http://lowendmac.com/ed/royal/12sr/flash-11-and-powerpc.html
 Cheers, Tom

Flash upgrade; 5 year old mac 5; is there a way without being jacked?

I spent all the money I had on Apple products just 5 years ago spending sixteen thousand dollars on my MAC 5 with all the bells and whistles you can think of. Now, all over the internet there is a growing experience of receiving more and more error messages stating that my system is no-longer compatible. The latest being a visit to my Facebook page where I uploaded a video and shortly thereafter I received a message that says I must upgrade Flash Player. Of course, you already know that anything new won't play on a Apple MAC 5 OS 10.4.
Oh, it was so exiting back then. Got my new computer and it wasn't just any ol' computer it was an Apple computer!
Now I'm being treated like dirt. Even Apple has turned a deaf ear. They said that I will have to throw my $16K computer in the dumpster and spend another $16k on another Apple product to reach that height of bliss I experienced 4 years ago. And what happens 4 years from now. Is it to the dumpster again? But before the dumpster, will I get the dirt treatment again? The error massages? The deaf ear?
Some of you may think that 5 years is old. I still have my 30 year old 16 track Teac reel to reel linear recorder with encoder and control panel that still works with the most incredible sound that most highly technologically talented gurus of today have never experienced.
"Flash upgrade; 4 year old mac 5; is there a way" to upgrade without having to buy a whole new Apple computer?...as opposed to relying on my Windows XP more and more?
If it is your intentions to ridcule me because I'm poor now, please save it, I feel bad enough as it is. Believe me, if I had the money, I'd probably keep buying more and more just like you...
...(or maybe not). Will Apple appreciate my second $16K purchase as much as it did the first one? Will it reward me the same as the first?
It's all I have left, I can't play my own video on my own Facebook.
(This will probably get deleted)

Thanks John.
I have a Mac OS X vers 10.4.11 with 4 x 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5; Memory 4.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM
I do not have Intels.
When you go to a person to ask for investment capital, they want to know everything you need to create a successful business. Couches, chairs, office rental, electricity, gas, cell phones, land line, fey boards, fax machines, microphone mixers, sound samplers, speakers, CRT monitors, printers, audio boards, microphones, cameras, advertising, transportation, including computers.
When you go out of business, the investor sells what ever he can get his hands on, couches, chairs, tape decks, monitors, keyboards, including computers, ell phones, land line, fey boards fax machines, microphone mixers, sound samplers, speakers, CRT monitors, printers, audio boards, microphones, cameras, including computers.
My tax corporation depreciates those items on my taxes each year as tax credits.
If the investors and the IRS treats them as assets, who's to argue?
I looked at my Apple invoice and it reads $16k, however, I was reluctant to consider other items on the invoice. I should not include all items but for the most part , with all the bells and whistles including soft ware, (adobe etc) it came to $16k ( in which I gladly paid. I was happy)
I'm real happy that you are still able to occasionally use your Powerbook as you are probably happy that I can occasionally still use my 16 track reel to reel.
I am not trying to run Adobe Flash I am trying to run what ever the internet dictates to me to run.
Ranting? Unprofessional? I am one of the most professional people you can meet. Turning 60 next year, I have many years invested in production in radio and television, rubbing elbows with many famous and well known people in the entertainment industry. Many of whom share in my dilemma. When a company has an opportunity to observe growing issues first hand from its client base about their product or service, is always a good thing.
Opportunities for that company are created! A good company, when opportunity knocks, takes advantage of the opportunity, others complain about the noise.

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Hi..
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Hi all,
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17,000 Macs recruited into malware botnet, with a little help from Reddit
Researchers at Russian anti-virus company Dr Web believe that they have uncovered a new botnet, which has recruited thousands of Mac computers. According to their report, the sophisticated malware – which they have dubbed Mac.BackDoor.iWorm – has infected more than 17,000 computers running OS X. Unfortunately, what isn’t presently documented is how the malware spreads – but the consequences can clearly be serious.Like any computers that have been recruited into a botnet, Macs that have been hijacked in this attack could have information stolen from them, further malware planted upon them, or be used to spread more malware or launch spam campaigns and denial-of-service attacks.Fascinatingly, compromised computers receive commands from servers under the control of botmasters, using information posted in messages on Reddit as a navigational aid:Then Mac.BackDoor.iWorm opens a port on an infected computer and awaits an incoming connection. It sends a request to a remote site to acquire a list of control servers, and then connects to the remote servers and waits for instructions.It is worth mentioning that in order to acquire a control server address list, the bot uses the search service at reddit.com, and — as a search query — specifies hexadecimal values of the first 8 bytes of the MD5 hash of the current date. The reddit.com search returns a web page containing a list of botnet C&C servers and ports published by criminals in comments to the post minecraftserverlists under the account vtnhiaovyd.
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http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/02/new-mac-botnet-malware-uses-reddit-to-find-out-wha t-servers-to-connect-to/
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/hackers-are-using-reddi t-to-control-17000-apple-computers-9773032.html
http://grahamcluley.com/2014/10/mac-malware-botnet-reddit/

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No amount of malware security can fix stupid.'
EDIT: Link to evidence: http://www.thesafemac.com/iworm-method-of-infection-found/ (http://www.thesafemac.com/iworm-method-of-infection-found/)'

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New OS X malware masquerades as flash upgrade

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