MacDefender, the fake anti-virus for Mac

It can be installed silently from the web and tries to trick Mac users pushing them to spend money and provide their credit card number. The new threat to the security of the Apple asks permission to install

The bitten apple is threatened by a new worm, warns Integral rogue antivirus which spreads from infected websites and goes after the financial information of unsuspecting users of Mac OS X. MacDefender is his name, while the company has discovered it is about a not particularly alarming spread and clearance procedures affordable for any Mac user.

When you visit a Web site compromise MacDefender screen shows a (fake) screen scanning with the supposed presence of malware and malware on the Mac If the Safari browser settings allow, the JavaScript code, download the zip archive of malicious applications and automatically install the system – Otherwise the two procedures are delegated to the user’s own will.

Once taken root on Mac OS X, try to MacDefender appear to be convincing searching out (false) malware and pornographic content on the system and the browser, asking you to register the application to clean your computer from these false threats .See the image Gallery:


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