Because of gamed SEO placements and poisoned links, some thousands of Mac users were tricked into installing a fake Mac security program.<\/p>\n
Mac security vendor intego.com writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n Intego has discovered a rogue anti-malware program called MACDefender, which attacks Macs via SEO poisoning attacks. When a user clicks on a link after performing a search on a search engine such as Google, this takes them to a web site whose page contains JavaScript that automatically downloads a file. In this case, the file downloaded is a compressed ZIP archive, which, if a specific option in a web browser is checked (Open \u201csafe\u201d files after downloading in Safari, for example), will open. The file is decompressed, and the installer it contains launches presenting a user with the following screen:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n UPDATE: See Intego\u2019s full security memo<\/a> with detailed information about the MAC Defender fake antivirus.<\/p>\n PDG Recommends:<\/strong><\/p>\n Sophos makes a free Mac security program<\/a>. Read more about it in another post, and use it soon!<\/p>\n Apple will release a cleaner update for it as well. See their recent tech note<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because of gamed SEO placements and poisoned links, some thousands of Mac users were tricked into installing a fake Mac security program. Mac security vendor intego.com writes: Intego has discovered a rogue anti-malware program called MACDefender, which attacks Macs via SEO poisoning attacks. When a user clicks on a link after performing a search on … <\/p>\n