New Mac Defender malware variant drops admin password requirement!

New Mac Defender malware variant drops admin password requirement!

Watch out Mac users malware is increasing rapidly.  Now that programmers have figured out how to walk around the admin password requirement for installation we are going to see a major increase of infected Macs.   An installer window still comes up asking to install "Mac Guard" so as long as you don't install--you will be ok.   Check out this blog for more info.

 

Malware: OSX/MacDefender.F and OSX/MacDefender.G
Risk: Medium; effective SEO poisoning has led many Mac users to this type of malware, and no administrator password is required to install this new variant.

Means of protection: the first thing to do is make sure that when seeing a web page that looks like a Finder window, and purports to be scanning your Mac, you know that this is bogus. Leave the page, and quit your web browser. If anything has downloaded, and the Installer application has opened, quit it right away; look in your Downloads folder for the file, then delete it. Next, users should uncheck the “Open ‘safe’ files after downloading” option in Safari’s General preferences.