19.05.2011 18:35 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

MacDefender malware protection and removal guide

The MacDefender malware has been wreaking havoc for Mac users all over the world. The attack, which displays a message stating that your machine has been infected with viruses that only a "MacDefender" app can remove, has been spreading rapidly. As we stated earlier, MacDefender doesn't infect Macs with a virus, nor does it run a keylogger as a background process on your machine. It's simply trying to scare users into providing credit card information by registering an unneeded piece of software. There are already variants of this malware: MacSecurity and MacProtector are very similar in the way they work. It's been reported that Appl

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