1) windows machines are vulnerable to infections.
2) If you want to infect something, than you probably will look at the clients browser/os first? And depending on that you will send the code you want to the client!
So using Windows machine, not to get infected thats the most stupid idea!
A Letter to Mac Community
We'd like to address the community of Mac users on behalf of the creators of MacSweeper. Our product has been slandered a lot recently. It has been accused of being a "rogue" application and imputed false functionality to. We'd like to dispel this misguided opinion and show you that MacSweeper is a really useful application and the best of its kind.
1) What is MacSweeper and why would you need it?
MacOS is considered one of the most secure operating systems in the world. Nevertheless security in general depends not only on the OS but on the user and programs running under it. That's why for user's data protection MacSweeper was developed.
Removing Cookies belonging to sites in the blacklist
Different companies use Cookies for tracing user activity, some of them have dubious reputation since malicious software has been transmitted through their networks or from their domains. Such domains are put down to the blacklist. MacSweeper prevents user's data from being spread by removing those cookies while keeping user's personal cookies safe.
Cleaning user's and system cash
Our security experts have found that a lot of private information is stored in application cash and can be accessible for malicious software somehow launched on your mac. Moreover, by cleaning application cash you can free lots of space on your hard drive.
Cleaning application and system log files
Log files mostly contain information that an average user will never need which can be deleted trouble-free making additional free space available.
Universal Binaries & Languages
Mac applications are commonly assembled for different architectures and with multi language support. Users never use architectures other than their native and seldom use different languages. So it is possible to compress all these applications according to the needs of a specific user.
Therefore MacSweeper is not an antivirus, antispyware or antimalware application. Also MacSweeper has nothing to do with "rogue software" though many influential companies have labeled it this way and try to convince all users of it. But if you just read the definition for "rogue software" here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_software and then launch and activate our product to study its functions you'll realize MacSweeper is NOT a "rogue software" and we don't use anything mentioned in the definition.
Rogue security software is software that uses malware (malicious software) or malicious tools to advertise or install itself or to force computer users to pay for removal of nonexistent spyware.
2) Our advertisement pages
Many authoritative companies don't like our ads pages saying they display lies. Here let us draw an analogy to creating and selling toothpaste as a simple commonplace example. So imagine yourself you are sitting back on your couch and you see this toothpaste advertisement which says using this toothpaste once will keep your breath fresh 24 hours. But when you buy it and clean your teeth in 100% cases your breath won't stay fresh that long. Nevertheless you're not going to run out in the street shouting that a certain company produces "rogue toothpaste". Our advertisement pages are just the same - nothing more than a usual ad, simple animated pictures.
3) Other false opinions
Some users who had installed our product later wrote on forums that MacSweeper finds a number of objects on an absolutely clean machine. Our answer is - of course it does and before making statements as the one above you need to understand what the program finds. Every clean system, even a brand new Mac, has lots of trash files, universal binaries & languages and that's why MacSweeper wil find a lot of objects there.
4) Analyzing our product by authoritative companies
We were amused by the fact that a certain authoritative security software development company with a big name and experience wrote a review on our product based on its design and used pictures. However as we could see from a review, the company employees hadn't ev
It's not difficult to remove macSweeper from your computer, just like you remove other applications.
Just move it to trash, and make sure that MacSweeper Daemon is not running (look for little trash icon in your tray).
And you also need to remove MacSweeper CMI plugin from ~/Library/Contextual\ Menu\ Items, and com.KIVViSoftware.MacSweeper.plist from ~/Library/Prefferences
No other files are created! And no cleaning tools are needed!
Little snitch default location is not/Applications or ~/Applications, its stored in/Library/Little Snitch/ which is not a standard location for the applications, thats why it is in our TODO list, because we don't want it to be removed, if there are some other applications out there, which are not using standard locations, we will add them to list.
Thanks! Finally there is a man who can think wise:)
TODO list, yeh, thats some minor mess up, but it really shows what we are doing and what we about to do in our application.
At the moment we are rapidly working on new, most wanted features like Dead Applications files removal. It should work something like AppZapper, but users won't need to drop every application into some area, it will work even when you removed any application. Just finds and cleans, it's that simple!
Actually there are known methods to do so. We are working for a long time in security sphere, and can ensure you that everything is vulnerable. But too keep Mac platform safe, we won't discuss it here. MacSweeper doesn't use any of the vulnerabilities, it is made to be Simple and powerful System Cleaner, and helps to warn people to be more careful. There are known security holes with cookies, so MacSweeper has its own database of dangerous websites and cookies. It secures unwanted cookies, the same way MacScan does.
And I repeat, we love Apple and all their great products and we want to keep them clean and secure!
I would like to explain all the situation, about MacSweeper. We are really trying to make a good software, and you wont find any viruses/spyware/trojans/malware in MacSweeper (test it your self, if you don't believe me, you can use any type of firewalls, dissemblers, or other tools) . The problem is that we are using selling partners that forces us to use this marketing type. We would like to leave them, we don't want to completely destroy Good Name of MacSweeper application. Personally I adore Mac Platform, and it hearts to here that the program you wrote is said to be some kind of "Rogue application" , i wouldn't like to destroy good manners of software written for it:(( I would like to say sorry for all inconveniences that we could bring to you, but believe MacSweeper is meant to be a useful application.
You can ask Questions, and i will try to answer them! Thank You!
Slashdot Mirror
1) windows machines are vulnerable to infections. 2) If you want to infect something, than you probably will look at the clients browser/os first? And depending on that you will send the code you want to the client! So using Windows machine, not to get infected thats the most stupid idea!
A Letter to Mac Community We'd like to address the community of Mac users on behalf of the creators of MacSweeper. Our product has been slandered a lot recently. It has been accused of being a "rogue" application and imputed false functionality to. We'd like to dispel this misguided opinion and show you that MacSweeper is a really useful application and the best of its kind. 1) What is MacSweeper and why would you need it? MacOS is considered one of the most secure operating systems in the world. Nevertheless security in general depends not only on the OS but on the user and programs running under it. That's why for user's data protection MacSweeper was developed. Removing Cookies belonging to sites in the blacklist Different companies use Cookies for tracing user activity, some of them have dubious reputation since malicious software has been transmitted through their networks or from their domains. Such domains are put down to the blacklist. MacSweeper prevents user's data from being spread by removing those cookies while keeping user's personal cookies safe. Cleaning user's and system cash Our security experts have found that a lot of private information is stored in application cash and can be accessible for malicious software somehow launched on your mac. Moreover, by cleaning application cash you can free lots of space on your hard drive. Cleaning application and system log files Log files mostly contain information that an average user will never need which can be deleted trouble-free making additional free space available. Universal Binaries & Languages Mac applications are commonly assembled for different architectures and with multi language support. Users never use architectures other than their native and seldom use different languages. So it is possible to compress all these applications according to the needs of a specific user. Therefore MacSweeper is not an antivirus, antispyware or antimalware application. Also MacSweeper has nothing to do with "rogue software" though many influential companies have labeled it this way and try to convince all users of it. But if you just read the definition for "rogue software" here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_software and then launch and activate our product to study its functions you'll realize MacSweeper is NOT a "rogue software" and we don't use anything mentioned in the definition. Rogue security software is software that uses malware (malicious software) or malicious tools to advertise or install itself or to force computer users to pay for removal of nonexistent spyware. 2) Our advertisement pages Many authoritative companies don't like our ads pages saying they display lies. Here let us draw an analogy to creating and selling toothpaste as a simple commonplace example. So imagine yourself you are sitting back on your couch and you see this toothpaste advertisement which says using this toothpaste once will keep your breath fresh 24 hours. But when you buy it and clean your teeth in 100% cases your breath won't stay fresh that long. Nevertheless you're not going to run out in the street shouting that a certain company produces "rogue toothpaste". Our advertisement pages are just the same - nothing more than a usual ad, simple animated pictures. 3) Other false opinions Some users who had installed our product later wrote on forums that MacSweeper finds a number of objects on an absolutely clean machine. Our answer is - of course it does and before making statements as the one above you need to understand what the program finds. Every clean system, even a brand new Mac, has lots of trash files, universal binaries & languages and that's why MacSweeper wil find a lot of objects there. 4) Analyzing our product by authoritative companies We were amused by the fact that a certain authoritative security software development company with a big name and experience wrote a review on our product based on its design and used pictures. However as we could see from a review, the company employees hadn't ev
It's not difficult to remove macSweeper from your computer, just like you remove other applications. Just move it to trash, and make sure that MacSweeper Daemon is not running (look for little trash icon in your tray). And you also need to remove MacSweeper CMI plugin from ~/Library/Contextual\ Menu\ Items, and com.KIVViSoftware.MacSweeper.plist from ~/Library/Prefferences No other files are created! And no cleaning tools are needed!
Little snitch default location is not /Applications or ~/Applications, its stored in/Library/Little Snitch/ which is not a standard location for the applications, thats why it is in our TODO list, because we don't want it to be removed, if there are some other applications out there, which are not using standard locations, we will add them to list.
Thanks! Finally there is a man who can think wise :)
TODO list, yeh, thats some minor mess up, but it really shows what we are doing and what we about to do in our application.
At the moment we are rapidly working on new, most wanted features like Dead Applications files removal. It should work something like AppZapper, but users won't need to drop every application into some area, it will work even when you removed any application. Just finds and cleans, it's that simple!
Actually there are known methods to do so. We are working for a long time in security sphere, and can ensure you that everything is vulnerable. But too keep Mac platform safe, we won't discuss it here. MacSweeper doesn't use any of the vulnerabilities, it is made to be Simple and powerful System Cleaner, and helps to warn people to be more careful. There are known security holes with cookies, so MacSweeper has its own database of dangerous websites and cookies. It secures unwanted cookies, the same way MacScan does. And I repeat, we love Apple and all their great products and we want to keep them clean and secure!
Expecting you to be, next question.
??? interesting :))
I would like to explain all the situation, about MacSweeper. We are really trying to make a good software, and you wont find any viruses/spyware/trojans/malware in MacSweeper (test it your self, if you don't believe me, you can use any type of firewalls, dissemblers, or other tools) . The problem is that we are using selling partners that forces us to use this marketing type. We would like to leave them, we don't want to completely destroy Good Name of MacSweeper application. :((
Personally I adore Mac Platform, and it hearts to here that the program you wrote is said to be some kind of "Rogue application" , i wouldn't like to destroy good manners of software written for it
I would like to say sorry for all inconveniences that we could bring to you, but believe MacSweeper is meant to be a useful application.
You can ask Questions, and i will try to answer them! Thank You!