Among all the confusing posts and scare stories on offer this week about the flashback trojan, a lot of people seem to have missed the instructions for dealing with it.

Here’s F-Secure’s removal procedure:

uninstall trojan downloader

Here’s Rich Mogull’s general advice for securing your mac in light of this new threat:

What you need to know about the flashback trojan

It’s also worth emphasizing that, for technical reasons, if your mac has Microsoft Office 2008 or 2011 or Apple’s XCode installed, this particular trojan will not have been able to infect your computer.