CAT, MOUSE GAME BETWEEN APPLE AND MACDEFENDER

Here's a story so far. In May, Intego and- alternative Mac confidence vendors unclosed a brute (fake AV) which targeted Macs. The brute primarily used a name MacDefender, afterwards it used alternative names, such as MacSecurity as well as MacProtector. Then a various called MacGuard showed up, various which no longer asked a user for a cue when it commissioned itself.

 

That's a story so distant in a MacDefender camp. Let's switch to Apple's stay and- see what happened so far. After a brute proposed spreading, call volumes during AppleCare increasing 4 to 5 times. Apple employees attempted to assistance users as most as possible, even yet Apple told them not to. Then Apple strictly responded to a MacDefender hazard and- pronounced it would recover an refurbish which would benefaction a user with an pithy notice if he tries to download a MacDefender brute or any of a variants and- would automatically find and- mislay a MacDefender brute and- a variants from compromised machines.

A integrate of days ago Apple expelled a confidence refurbish referred to above. Security Update 2011-003 went live for Mac OS X users upon Tuesday, a 31st of May. The refurbish adds record solitary confinement and- built-in dismissal of a MacDefender brute as well as a variants. It additionally checks for updates to a File Quarantine malware clarification list upon a every day basis.

 

The people with antagonistic vigilant at a back of a MacDefender brute responded by releasing a new- various which bypassed Apple's malware showing system. The brand new various was expelled only hours after Apple expelled a confidence refurbish meant to strengthen users from a MacDefender brute and- a variants.

 

But recollect a "checks for updates upon a every day basis" partial referred to above? Yesterday, a 2nd of June, Apple updated a Xprotect malware definitions to embody a new- MacDefender various which bypassed a malware showing system.

 

To allude to Intego, "the cat and- rodent diversion has begun".

Round 03 Jun, 2011

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