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.

Whereas it may be difficult to keep your Mac in good shape at all times via manual manipulations, finding and installing an effective automatic cleanup and security tool is a slippery slope. There are tons of impostor apps out there that claim to be the best thing since sliced bread but end up screwing up your Mac usage experience big time. The program called Mac Tonic is undoubtedly in that gray area as it noxiously reports inexistent problems.

Today’s Internet browsing experience would be so incomplete without search engines. Thankfully, there are plenty of these providers to choose from. Cybercriminals have put their dirty footprint in this niche, though. A major vector of abuse in this context boils down to the use malicious code that drives traffic to rogue search services like weknow.ac. Said web page won’t harm your Mac, but it will drive you nuts by appearing in the browser off and on.

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.