MacDefender, is the rogue antimalware trojan currently spreading on Mac systems. This malware is known by a variety of names, including "Mac Defender", "MacProtector", "Mac Security", "Apple Security", and "Apple Security Center". It is a great example of how \u2018social engineering\u2019 can be used to trick people into harming themselves. Below are clear and easy procedures for removing it, read the quick summary or follow the links at the end for walk-throughs with loads of screen shots<\/p>\n
I have written recently about this here<\/strong><\/a>, but it appears more people are being \u2018snagged\u2019.<\/p>\n Apple support is being of absolutely NO help either! In fact they are telling their people,"Do not attempt to remove malware.." Read about that BS here<\/strong><\/a> if you wish. So I thought I’d again provide some tips. <\/p>\n Here is the simple summary of what to do:<\/p>\n Here are the two best links I could find for simple walk-throughs. I would rather not repeat the tutorials they have already taken the time to do. Now the super links with detailed screen shots and some additional tips: VRT-blog has some good information on this also, <\/strong>read that here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Folks, if you use a Mac and you connect it to any systems \u2013 especially the internet, please realize that you are vulnerable to attacks and hacks. NO system is immune to attack! Although Mac\u2019s and Linux systems have benefited by a more secure file system\/OS structure (for the most part) than previous Windows systems AND the fact that their numbers were small – about 8% of all network connected desktop machines and presented a \u2018low volume\u2019 target they are now increasingly being attacked. This is especially true since many Apple uses have been lied to and told they are invulnerable to attacks.<\/p>\n BE SAFE FOLKS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MacDefender, is the rogue antimalware trojan currently spreading on Mac systems. This malware is known by a variety of names, including "Mac Defender", "MacProtector", "Mac Security", "Apple Security", and "Apple Security Center". It is a great example of how \u2018social engineering\u2019 can be used to trick people into harming themselves. Below are clear and easy … Continue reading “MacDefender trojan\/malware is currently spreading on Mac systems – let’s kill it!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,10,52,7,13,8,151,61],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Their work is much appreciated.<\/p>\n
The HowToGeek.com site has a great walk through here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n