AdwareThe links for many popular Mac apps on CNET’s download.com have been replaced with a “CNET installer” that installs toolbar adware and changes browser settings. This guide shows how to identify affected apps, how to avoid the toolbar installer, how to determine if it has…
October 13, 2013 • 4 min readUpdate (10/29/13 12:15pm): SecureMac has prepared a guide to help users identify and remove the adware being distributed by CNET’s download.com in place of popular Mac apps. The guide provides detailed information, including step-by-step instructions to determine if the adware is installed on your system,…
SecureMac Security Bulletin Posted: May 2nd, 2011 Security Risk: Low A new privacy and security threat is targeting computers running Apple’s Mac OS X disguised as an anti-virus program called MAC Defender. The fake anti-virus program will “detect” nonexistent threats as being present on the…
Posted: May 2nd, 2011 Security Risk: Low RELATED: MAC Defender Security Bulletin & Removal Instructions PDF: https://www.securemac.com/pdf/macdefender.pdf As noted in our security advisory at https://www.securemac.com/MAC-Defender-Rouge-Anti-Virus-Analysis-Removal.php there is a new piece of malware in the wild that is targeting computers running OS X. The following is…
SecureMac Security Bulletin Due to the easy removal of the currently identified variant of this malware, SecureMac rates this threat as low. This Security Bulletin will be updated if the threat changes. Updated: May 9th, 2011 Updated: May 4th, 2011 Posted: May 2nd, 2011 Security…
May 2, 2011 • 10 min read