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Title: Early alarms over new Mac malware
Post by: Marc57 on October 17, 2008, 09:09:33 AM

Sunbelt Software chief executive Alex Eckelberry revealed that researchers at his company had uncovered a site advertising a product known as "MacGuard". The product claims to offer both spyware and antivirus protections as well as the ability to remove adware and block phishing attacks on OS X systems.

Though no downloadable software has been found on the site, Eckelberry is urging users to remain vigilant.

http://virusbuster.hu/en/viruslab/security_news/081017_fakeosx


As Stated, there's nothing on this site YET. This is just a heads-up to Mac users that something may be coming.

Title: Re: Early alarms over new Mac malware
Post by: FreewheelinFrank on October 17, 2008, 09:39:02 AM

Funny, the computer in the ad looks like a PC.

 ::)

Title: Re: Early alarms over new Mac malware
Post by: DavidR on October 17, 2008, 05:03:19 PM

Not a very nice looking PC at that.

I suppose they were worried about getting sued by Apple for using a Mac image in an advert ;D ;D

Title: Re: Early alarms over new Mac malware
Post by: .: Mac :. on October 18, 2008, 03:42:25 AM

Quote from: DavidR on October 17, 2008, 05:03:19 PM

Not a very nice looking PC at that.

I suppose they were worried about getting sued by Apple for using a Mac image in an advert ;D ;D

Good one  ;)

I've seen some of these rouge programs on people's machines before, just as with their windows counterparts they can be hard to remove. Luckily they are not nearly as widespread as their windows counterparts.

Title: Re: Early alarms over new Mac malware
Post by: zone12 on October 23, 2008, 04:47:45 AM

I'd have to say this looks like an rouge just look at the picture doesnt it seem a little bit too....simple and dull?