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First Scareware For the Mac
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."
Remember the Brit "journalist" who posted his own data to prove ident theft a hoax? Sounds like this fellow attended the same training seminars...
as to the crapware: gosh and golly gee! Now that I have expressed apropriate concern let us move on...
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
If he didn't want to get infected, he should have used lynx on OpenBSD!
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Nah, don't look so worried. I doubt they'd learn anything.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.