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January 15, 2008
Mac Users Celebrate Macworld Keynote With Their Own Scam Security App
F-Secure says it has found "the first Mac rogue application and it's called MacSweeper:"
"It claims to clean your Mac from compromising files and it will always find something to fix/clean but the only way to do so is to buy the program.
"Once installed it will also randomly show a big popup window stating that your privacy is compromised and again prompt you to buy the program.
"Even more telling that it's a scam is the fact that when you visit the MacSweeper website with a PC and click on 'Scan', it will tell you that you have security vulnerabilities in folders that only exist on Mac like system_root/home. ...
"Looking more at their website we found that they have copied the text describing the company directly from Symantec and just changed the name."
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