There are numerous facets and shades of Mac adware. Some of these junk apps fully live up to their categorization, displaying ads on most web pages the victim visits. Others use a different tactic that involves an unauthorized overhaul of one’s browser settings to reroute the traffic. The Bing redirect virus targeting Mac, as the name suggests, falls under the latter cluster.

There is no such thing as a junk-free Mac, unless you have just bought it and turned it on for the first time. As the computer is being used, the web browsing activity and installed applications leave heaps of cache and temporary files behind that cram up the system with megabytes or even gigabytes of data you don’t need. The Mac Cleanup Pro software claims to find and delete this clutter, but it turns out to be a fake system utility at the end of the day.

A suspicious software entity called MacPerformance is a new hot topic currently trending on Mac discussion boards. Lots of users are reporting popups that appear out of the blue and say MacPerformance wants access to control Safari / Google Chrome. Activity of that sort most likely exhibits malicious characteristics. This article provides facts known on this issue thus far.

Mac malware is becoming increasingly prolific and complex. Some of these infections are hybrid by their essence, combining browser hijacking properties with the logic of social engineering. The one referred to as Poporiginalbestflash is this particular type. It redirects victims to Poporiginalbestflash.icu web page that displays a warning about the Mac being severely contaminated or recommends a critical software update.

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.

Malware distributors have become competent enough to pass off rogue Mac applications as legit ones. Their scareware can resemble normal utilities and behave like something useful to get users on the hook and dupe them into coughing up a registration fee. Similar Photo Cleaner is one of the pseudo optimization tools you don’t want to encounter. It trespasses on Mac computes and then reports numerous duplicates and imaginary system performance issues.