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First Scareware For the Mac

Posted in Security (January 16, 2008 at 6:33 pm)

I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property sends us news from F-Secure of what they claim is the first rogue cleaning tool for the Mac. MacSweeper is a Mac version of Cleanator, hosted from a colo somewhere in the Ukraine. The article points out that the company’s About page is lifted verbatim from Symantec’s site. With the Mac’s market share closing in on double digits, perhaps it’s not surprising to see the platform targeted with crapware as PCs have been for years. The F-Secure author adds as a footnote that a journalist said to him something you don’t hear every day: “I visited the macsweeper.com website. I know I probably shouldn’t have but I used a Windows PC so I knew I wouldn’t get infected.”

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