WWDC 2012 tickets sold out in under two hours

This morning, Apple announced WWDC 2012. The event will be held June 11^th through June 15^th. As rumored before, this year's WWDC will be held in the Moscone Center. Tickets sold out in under two hours after the announcement. Conference tickets were sold for $1,599, the same price as last year's tickets. More information about WWDC 2012 can be found on Apple's website.

WWDC 2012 to begin on June 11?

Techradar and Cult of Mac have both reported that WWDC 2012 may be set for the week of June 11th. A mysterious "Corporate Event" has been booked at the Moscone Center. There hasn't been any official news, but the "Corporate Event" seems very likely to be Apple's WWDC conference. See the Moscone Center schedule or the screenshot below.

Techradar has said that it thinks iOS 6 may be unveiled this summer as well as the release of OS X Mountain Lion. Both Techradar and Cult of Mac say that we won't see the iPhone 5 this summer, but rather Apple will release it this fall, as with the iPhone 4S.

What do you think? What will we see released this summer? Leave me a comment and let me know!

How to uninstall the Flashback Trojan

 The Flashback trojan is a Mac virus that now has control of over 600,000 Macs. It poses as the Adobe Flash Player Updater and exploits a security hole in Java. It then steals all your user names and passwords for popular websites. Apple released a Java update that fixes the problem. Download Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 7 (Snow Leopard users) or Java for OS X Lion 2012-002 (Lion users). Both these links are to Apple KB articles that describe the update and allow you to download the installer package.

Recently there was a question posted on Ask Different asking Is my Mac infected with the Flashback trojan? I posted an answer to the question, which was voted up quite a bit and was accepted by the asker. Here are instructions from F-Secure on how to check for the Flashback trojan, and remove it:

1. Run the following command in Terminal (Applications> Utilities >Terminal
   
   defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
   
2. Take note of the value DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
3. Proceed to step 8 if you got the following error message:
   
   The domain/default pair of (/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info, LSEnvironment) does not exist
   
4. Otherwise, run the following command in Terminal:
   
   grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' %path_obtained_in_step2%
   
   
5. Take note of the value after "__ldpath__"
   
6. Run the following commands in Terminal (first make sure there is only one entry from step 2):
   
   sudo defaults delete /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

sudo chmod 644 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist
   
7. Delete the files obtained in steps 2 and 5.
8. Run the following command in Terminal:
   
   defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
   
9. Take note of the result. Your system is already clean of this variant if you got an error message similar to the following:
   
   "The domain/default pair of (/Users/joe/.MacOSX/environment, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES) does not exist"
   
10. Otherwise, run the following command in Terminal:
    
    grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' %path_obtained_in_step9%
    
11. Take note of the value after "__ldpath__"
    
12. Run the following commands in Terminal:
    
    defaults delete ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES

launchctl unsetenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
13. Finally, delete the files obtained in steps 9 and 11.

An alternative to the Terminal method is Flashback Checker. It is a free little application that checks for the trojan and tell you whether you are infected or not.