Lots of people believe they can’t go wrong with Macs when it comes to security. Indeed, Apple has strong defenses in place so that malicious code can’t easily infiltrate their devices. There are infections like the Shlayer Trojan, though, that combine hard-coded adverse features with social engineering to get around native Mac protection and become highly prolific in the wild. Learn what exactly makes this threat so widespread and how to stay away from it.

The growth of cloud computing and virtualization has propelled a paradigm where computer networks and individual machines can operate with amazing flexibility in terms of allocating the processing resources. The only caveat is to ensure that there is a proper conduit in place linking servers with separate hosts. The Citrix Receiver tool for Mac bridges the gap in this regard. It can be problematic to thoroughly remove, though. This article helps get rid of all the bits and pieces of this software if it’s no longer needed.

The Mac OS X environment is now officially exposed to ransomware attacks. This breaking news began circulating on security resources as of March 4. A strain of malware dubbed KeRanger, alias OSX.KeRanger.A, is specifically targeting Mac machines, using a compromised version of a popular BitTorrent Client tailored for this platform. As a result, the victims’ files get encrypted and the extortionists demand a ransom for data recovery.

Some Mac applications tend to become more resource-intensive as they evolve. This is a normal upshot of advanced features being brought to users’ fingertips, but it might also be a source of performance issues on older machines that lack RAM and CPU power to cope with growingly complex tasks thrown at them. Whilst a popup alert saying “Your computer is low on memory” seems to be a symptom of such a predicament, it could as well mean that the Mac is infected with a virus.

Adware is taking the Mac world by storm, with numerous strains surfacing in the wild to wreak havoc with users’ Internet navigation experience. There is a particular lineage of these software culprits that generates new spinoffs several times a week, which hints at ambitious players at the helm of the campaign. SystemSpot is one of the samples discovered in 2020. Keep reading to get an idea of how it operates and what risks may ensue from its activity.

Streaming video downloaders are still popular despite high Internet penetration allowing people to watch such content on the go with no issues at all. ClipGrab application is one of the pioneers in online media conversion services for Macs. It appears to do its job, for the most part. However, there are a few recent concerns about excessively intrusive tactics used to distribute this app and the subsequent interference with one’s web browsing activities.