Weekly Wrap: Flashback malware, ebook litigation, and iPads for kids

15.04.2012

checks your Mac before Flashback wrecks your Mac. Or soon thereafter, technically, if indeed it finds that you're already infected.

Kaspersky released an app that found and removed the Flashback virus from your Mac, but the app , too. Awkward. As they say in Russia, where Kaspersky is headquartered: . The company did . But if you're now a bit hesitant to rush in to the Russian tool, you have an option direct from Cupertino: Apple released ; this one removes Flashback and disables the Java plug-in by default--and all without that accidental file deletion.

. A picture is worth a thousand words; an Instagram image is apparently worth a thousand millions. After we scooped our jaws up off the floor, we wondered , and also considered . Besides a lot of new cars for the people who created the app, that is.

If Facebook pokes you the wrong way, you can still tweak your photos on your iPhone in other ways; check our tutorial on .