{"id":72605,"date":"2011-05-31T12:13:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T12:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72605"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:13:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T12:13:54","slug":"beware-of-macdefender-fake-antivirus-for-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/beware-of-macdefender-fake-antivirus-for-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of &#8216;MACDefender&#8217; fake Antivirus for MAC OS X !!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new malware for MAC OS X is on the rise. Its being downloaded on the users machine via Safari. The malware appears to be deployed via JavaScript as a compressed ZIP file reached through Google searches.<\/p>\n<p>In its advisory over the issue, Apple said an administrative password prompt is a good time for a user to abort the installation of the fake anti-virus software. Now its attacks won&#8217;t ask for a password, following a method used by criminals on Windows PCs to avoid user account control (UAC) warnings. Now all you need to do is to follow a bad link via a affected search image result for an installation to start. Once installed, the malware prompts you for credit card details to purchase the software, which of course you should not do.<\/p>\n<p>It is recommended that MAC users disable the &#8216;open safe file after downloading&#8217; option on their MAC systems, at least until Apple releases the security update. With this the downloaded fake AV cannot install itself unless you permit it to start installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new malware for MAC OS X is on the rise. Its being downloaded on the users machine via Safari. The malware appears to be deployed via JavaScript as a compressed ZIP file reached through Google searches. In its advisory over the issue, Apple said an administrative password prompt is a good time for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}