{"id":297,"date":"2011-05-25T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-06-13T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T18:02:48","slug":"how-to-avoid-or-remove-mac-defender-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2011\/05\/25\/how-to-avoid-or-remove-mac-defender-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid or remove Mac Defender malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple posted this <a title=\"Beware of phishing\" href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ht4650\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> regarding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent phishing scam has targeted Mac users by redirecting them from legitimate websites to fake websites which tell them that their computer is infected with a virus. The user is then offered Mac Defender &#8220;anti-virus&#8221; software to solve the issue. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a title=\"Cyber-attacks have been more about hacking your brain than your computer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/160098\/2011\/05\/macdefender.html\" target=\"_blank\">MacWorld<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Online crime falls mostly into four categories: [1] self-spreading malware (like viruses); [2] malware that attacks vulnerable Web browsers when you visit a site (drive-by attacks); [3] malware that tricks you into installing it (like Mac Defender); and [4] online scams and Web attacks that don\u2019t hack your computer (eBay scams, phishing, search-result poisoning, and so on). Macs are still unlikely to see the first or fully-automated versions of the second. Mac users have always faced the fourth. But as our numbers grow, it&#8217;s only natural we will see more of the third.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, <a title=\"Latest version of the Trojan horse calls itself MacGuard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/160090\/2011\/05\/intego_mac_trojan_horse_macguard.html\" target=\"_blank\">MacWorld<\/a> notes, &#8220;Intego on Wednesday warned Mac users that a new variant of the Mac Defender Trojan horse doesn\u2019t require that you provide an administrator password during the installation process.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple posted this article regarding: A recent phishing scam has targeted Mac users by redirecting them from legitimate websites to fake websites which tell them that their computer is infected with a virus. The user is then offered Mac Defender &#8220;anti-virus&#8221; software to solve the issue. And MacWorld writes: Online crime falls mostly into four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,22],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-mac","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}