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MacScan Detects Spyware
limpymac writes "MacScan public beta was announced to the public short minutes ago. MacScan will detect, isolate and remove spyware on the Macintosh. Currently it will detect trojan horses and keystroke loggers without a hitch. The application is for Mac OS and Mac OS X and is created by the folks at SecureMac.com. I found a keystroke recorder on my Macintosh I installed a year ago and forgot to remove; hah, I have a year's worth of logs!"
MacScan is legit, was released by SecureMac.com, Inc.
...or is apple.slashdot.org mirroring macslash more and more recently? The interesting thing is that macslash usually beats slashdot to it, but the interesting discussions happen here. :)
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The wintel world has something that can get Gator and friends out the door - AdAware from Lavasoft.
Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
Antivirus software just cannot detect it.
That's because you gave permission to install it via some sneaky click-wrap license. You know, those ones you never read? AV companies have the technology, but they would probably get their pants sued off if they called another company's product malicious when it was merely annoying or nosy--and when the user supposedly consented to it being there.
The wintel world (win9x) needs something that can get Gator and friends out the door.
There are plenty of them already, like Pest Patrol, Spybot S&D, and Ad Aware.
There's a lot of good information on spyware at Doxdesk and Spyware Info.
System /7/, as in 7.0.0, will only run on 68k. You need (iirc, its been a while) 7.1.2P or higher for PPC. You're still right about fat binarys for 68k/ppc
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If I set it to scan everything from the root directory on down, it crashes without fail. Pretty beta so far.
MacScan b2 is available from http://macscan.securemac.com/ which fixes many of the issues discussed here.