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.
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In pursuit of more effective malvertising techniques, cybercriminals may take advantage of legit Internet services that are nearly bulletproof in terms of blacklisting. This is the case with popups and redirects taking place via rackcdn.com, a domain space owned by a Texas based company providing cloud solutions. The landing page reports rogue threats and recommends victims to install a piece of scareware.
No matter what they say, Macs get viruses and the stereotype about malware-free Apple computers is certainly obsolete. The electronic threats targeting this platform can manifest themselves in multiple different ways, from hijacking the browser or displaying counterfeit error reports - to mining cryptocurrency in the background. Read this article to learn what symptoms to look out for and how to get rid of a Mac virus if it’s on board and wreaking havoc.
Macs are made inherently flexible when it comes to performance, and there is usually no need to opt for anything third-party – ideally, the operating system copes with the task autonomously. If there are processes that siphon off too much memory, macOS identifies the hogs and triggers kernel_task process that performs the intelligent balancing. But what if this routine goes wrong and said entity is constantly eating up the CPU? Read more to find out.
The browser you use knows a lot about you and provides this information to its owner and visited sites if you allow it. However, there are special web browsers that are designed to protect your data and make Internet surfing as secure as possible. This article presents several well-known web browsers that will help you stay online incognito, let's take a look at them. Anonymous web browser is an important part of Internet security.
To distribute malicious code on a large scale, Mac virus peddlers can utilize an agile strategy reminiscent of omnichannel marketing, except that it’s not a legit business at all. As a result, the average scareware campaign is a complex framework of interrelated elements, including browser hijackers like apple.com-scan.live, compromised websites, and the rogue app proper.
Out of all infections on the Mac threat map, rogue system utilities are particularly tricky. They try to distort the actual health condition of an Apple computer to fool the user into purchasing the license. This applies to Cleanup My Mac, an application that masquerades itself as a system optimizer but in fact sticks with a false positives tactic to manipulate users big time. Here’s a detailed analysis of said scareware from different angles.
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.