This review of MacBooster 8 comprehensively covers the app’s updated feature set and answers the question whether or not the new version is worth its salt.
This Combo Cleaner review gives informative insights into the app’s Mac optimization and antivirus features while singling out its main pros and cons.
Find out how to tell if your Mac has a virus, what to do in case of infection, and how to prevent different forms of malware from contaminating a Mac.
Mac adware, browser hijackers, redirect viruses, ads injectors – all of these malicious phenomena have been fused into an all-embracing form of dubious code over time. If a user gets caught in a software bundling trap and falls victim to such a nasty, they encounter messy browser behavior combined with privacy encroachment. The MainReady threat is the latest sample falling into this category, so it is subject to immediate removal if a Mac is under attack.
It seems that there is always some void to fill in the realm of web search. Better accuracy, higher speed, and greater relevance are a few common goals on the way towards perfection in this niche. There are services that claim to enhance these parameters while lacking proprietary search algorithms altogether. Landslide Search is one of these questionably useful providers bringing hardly any value to end users and relying on intrusive marketing mechanisms.
In light of the COVID-19 emergency, a plethora of businesses around the world have been forced to switch to a remote workplace approach. The new reality is pretty much a no-go without video conferencing services like Zoom. However, it turned out that the above-mentioned app has gaping security loopholes some of which affect Mac users. Find out what these bugs are and what kind of consequences they may entail for one’s privacy and security.
The recent update of Apple’s proprietary web browser proved out to be more revolutionary than it may appear. Having surfaced in late March 2020, Safari 13.1 comes with a host of new features and, perhaps most importantly, a fundamental privacy tweak. The latter comes down to enhancements of the built-in mechanisms intended to prevent third-party tracking. Go ahead and familiarize yourself with these commendable improvements.
In late March 2020, Apple released another subversion of macOS Catalina. The new 10.15.4 iteration introduces a series of bug fixes and enhancements while additionally delivering security tweaks and feature updates. Compared to the previous build, this one appears to have more substantial changes under the hood and has a hue of finalization, which could mean that a fresh major macOS version is around the corner.
A macOS update is the way enhancements and new features are rolled out to existing users. It comes as no surprise that numerous MacBook Pro and iMac owners look forward to receiving the latest build of the operating system. Whereas this is a much-anticipated event overall, it could be accompanied by bugs such as the libecomlodr.dylib popup alerts. Moreover, some crude system components may be exploited to open up loopholes for malware to slither inside.
Some Mac applications do what’s promised, but some only pretend to be useful. The activity of Advanced Mac Cleaner definitely doesn’t exceed the primitive mimicking of optimization as it reports inexistent issues. The mix of intimidation and deceit, as viewed by this app’s authors, is the right marketing strategy to ensure license purchases in exchange for dummy cleanup of the host system.
When confronted with the Chill Tab browser hijacker, Mac machine users feel frustrated and helpless because the problem won’t go away no matter what manual cleanup techniques they leverage. This potentially unwanted program (PUP) changes Safari, Chrome, Mozilla and other browsers settings on a compromised Mac computer so that the victim is stuck with browser redirects and annoying popups.
The malefactors at the helm of the brand new Mac Auto Fixer scareware wave appear to have adopted an interested tactic. They are switching to new pseudo Mac maintenance products more frequently than before. It took the crooks only about a week to replace the preceding infection called Mac Tonic with the fresh one in question. This means the detection may be harder, but we are going to show you how to sort things out no matter which variant you are confronted with.