6/29/2023 0 Comments Detectx free mac![]() – ClamXav (now shareware): Great for finding most Windows malware dumped on your machine via email etc. IOW: Sh*t Happens, particularly to very nice people who have not been blessed with tech savvy. One botnet was estimated to have reached 600,000 Macs. Note the couple of times Trojan horse malware for Macs has resulted in massive botnets over of 100,000 victim zombie Macs. Witness the survival of horrible MacKeeper software. They’re the reason computer scams are increasingly rampant and successful. This nasty term refers to computer users who literally attract security problems. I’m also a firm believer, by way of experience, in the ‘LUSER’. Why Apple is stalling on this patch, I have NO idea. (Not a problem in any other version of OS X at this time). Apple has one pending security hole right now called ‘DLYD_PRINT_TO_FILE Exploit’ that requires patching in OS X Yosemite. They’ve also been incredibly slow to address a handful of security holes in various OS X technologies over the past year. I can point to their refusal to wipe out the possibility of the Masque Attack on iOS as an example. Apple also has built-in protection against the two worst plagues of the Internet: Adobe Flash and Oracle Java. He also, no doubt, knows that Apple incorporates both Gatekeeper and XProtect into OS X specifically to avoid Trojan horses and scams, such as malicious adware. He’s in the class of user who can ID a phishing scam and avoid Trojan horses (which by far make up the vast majority of OS X malware over time) from a mile away. I’m not exactly going to agree with Brian Krebs here. How to uninstall MacKeeper from your Mac – December 19, 2014 What ‘MacKeeper’ is and why you should avoid it – January 21, 2015 How to detect and remove MacKeeper and keylogger malware on your Mac – July 17, 2015Ĭontroversial MacKeeper security program opens critical hole on Mac computers – May 12, 2015 MacDailyNews Take: Your Mac is an amazing machine. Much more in the full article – recommended – here. ![]() The only ‘cleaning’ apps one needs are Onyx and AppDelete. ![]()
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