Just this morning we noted that Apple had not yet come out with a tool to kill the Flashback malware, and that Kaspersky and F-Secure had both developed their own free tools. This afternoon, Apple released Java for OS X 2012-003 to remove "most common variants of the Flashback malware."
According to the update notes, the Java web plug-in is also configured to disable the automatic execution of Java applets -- that's another way to kee
