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First Scareware For the Mac

Posted by kdawson on from the rogue-cleaning-tool dept.

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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  1. Wait, why would you even use this? by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 0, Troll

    I mean, if you have a Mac, it's not like it's a problem anyway ...

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  2. Re:Oh no! by b1gp0pp4 · · Score: 0, Troll

    hear hear! Wish I had mod points!!! To stray from the car analogy... a computer expert is out in the jungle searching for weeds that sting, poison, or otherwise get in the way of all the other software... which is also a bunch of crazy plants. crap i just dropped my iphone.

    no time to replace my sig. i just dropped my iphone. i'm not a mac fanboy but god i love this phone.

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  3. iMalware by Wiseman1024 · · Score: 0, Troll

    iMalware. Get hacked with style.

    Since you are about to get screwed up, better do it while listening to your latest DRM-ridden iTunes music in your grossly overpriced iPod. Make iMalware part of your digital lifestyle. It looks much better than Windows'!

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