All right, Mac users — the day of reckoning has come.

Thanks to a well-documented flaw that Apple didn't patch for three months, a nasty piece of malware called Mac Flashback seems to have infected nearly 600,000 Macs worldwide (according to Russian security firm Dr. Web).

Here are three things you need to do today:

— Check to see whether your Mac is infected by Mac Flashback. The social-networking news site Mashable has created a script that will do so for you. The instructions are on the Mashable website. Add a comment