Mac Guard is a fake antivirus program that targets OS X users and is a variant of the first widespread scareware to target Mac users on the Internet first labeled as MAC Defender. The malware is a Trojan virus and is designed to spread through maliciously infected websites (also being called SEO poisoning by the [...]
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If you are running Mac OS X, you will notice that whenever you visit an online site, the IP will get cached for a set period of time. This is just how the system is programmed to function. When moving domain names from one server to another; it can be a hassle to have [...] The Boonana Trojan Horse was discovered in October 2010 and is designed to affect computers running both the Mac OS X and Windows Operating Systems. The virus is designed to leverage social media sites such as Facebook by disguising itself as a video link on a message asking the recipient if they are in the [...] Mac OS X computer users have been able to feel relatively safe from computer malware threats over the past several years. Unfortunately, there has been a new version of the Blackhole RAT Trojan virus discovered recently. The Trojan targets the Mac OS X operating System and is in active development with updates being released as [...] The iPodService.exe application is the iPod Hardware Management Services program installed by the Apple iTunes porgram. On older versions of the iTunes player, this program would be started by default and would then attempt to start MusicMatch Jukebox whenever the iPod was connected to the computer. The service will use 5MB or more of computer [...] For years, Macintosh users did not have to worry about the threat of computer malware as it was all targeted towards computers running the Windows operating System. Things have changed now. The DNS Changer Trojan Horse became known in 2008 as a Trojan Horse that attacks Macs running OS-X. (*Note the article has been updated to [...] 
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