{"id":436,"date":"2011-05-31T17:40:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T21:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/apple-releases-fix-for-macdefender-trojan\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T17:40:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T21:40:28","slug":"apple-releases-fix-for-macdefender-trojan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/apple-releases-fix-for-macdefender-trojan\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases fix for MacDefender Trojan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok OS X folks. Looks like Apple finally is releasing a &#8216;fix\/update&#8217; for the MacDefender Trojan. <\/p>\n<p>The update provides a File Quarantine definition for the &quot;OSX.MacDefender.A&quot; malware and Mac OS X 10.6.7 will now automatically update the definitions on a daily basis. The update will also search for and remove MacDefender and its known variants. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The knowledge base <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4657\"><strong>article is here<\/strong><\/a><strong>&#160; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>and the actual <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/DL1387\"><strong>download is here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please update your systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My previous article <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/ApSHF\"><strong>is here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok OS X folks. Looks like Apple finally is releasing a &#8216;fix\/update&#8217; for the MacDefender Trojan. The update provides a File Quarantine definition for the &quot;OSX.MacDefender.A&quot; malware and Mac OS X 10.6.7 will now automatically update the definitions on a daily basis. The update will also search for and remove MacDefender and its known variants. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/apple-releases-fix-for-macdefender-trojan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple releases fix for MacDefender Trojan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,7,21,13,151,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-osx","category-security","category-tech-tips","category-trojan","category-virus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"H0rs4B@lls4210\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" 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