Just like any other operating system, macOS is prone to performance issues. This is a natural aftermath of active use, routine web browsing and all sorts of manipulations with files. There are reputable solutions capable of boosting computer performance in these scenarios. The application called Mac Mechanic claims to address all of these problems in a few clicks, too, but there are critical concerns about its activity. Learn what they are and how to handle them.

Depositing malicious code on Mac is a nontrivial objective that requires a great deal of skill and trickery. Unfortunately, high-profile threat actors have plenty of instruments and techniques in their portfolio to arrive at this objective. One of the recent malware delivery campaigns comes down to using Inquiry.doc file that tries to manipulate victims into unknowingly triggering obfuscated harmful scripts on Macs. Here’s the lowdown on these shenanigans.

One of the key benefits of the web search environment is that people get to choose which provider they prefer using. Thankfully, there are quite a few services that are worthwhile. The bad news, though, is that some light-fingered vendors promote junk search engines such as MyWay Search that don’t bear any genuine informative value and replace users’ default providers without asking for permission.

Ipswich boy Ribald from the X century, turned the bark into a carrier of personal data, combining a drawing of his father and his name. Personal data is understood as a set of information that allows you to identify an individual - a set that unambiguously indicates a specific person. In some jurisdictions, like European countries, personal data is a broad term and may include various quasi-identifiers that may lead to the identification of a particular person.

Ideally, personalization of online experience should be a piece of cake these days. In fact, that’s one of the fundamentals of modern web browsing practices – users can easily define various Internet navigation shortcuts in the blink of an eye. Apps like AnySearchManager, however, demonstrate that tampering with this prerogative is just as simple. It hijacks browser defaults on a Mac computer without permission.

In the online ecosystem where search providers are more than welcome, there shouldn’t be room for major players’ monopoly. Whereas the less prevalent services also belong in this environment, there are numerous rogue ones like search.anysearch.net linked to Any Search Manager malware whose pursuit is restricted to intercepting users’ web traffic and monetizing it beyond authorization.