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Unfortunately I haven't been able to duplicate the experience of this morning on my Mac Book Pro. That's my default assumption anyway, and why I use Macs.

The moment I saw 'Mac Booster 2 wants to make changes to this computer' I clicked deny and uninstalled it, so that's my basis for assuming that it won't have done any harm to my - or Iggy's - machine, assuming Apple's security protocols are strong enough, as long as you don't explicitly authorise a change, I don't think it will make any changes. Currently my iMac doesn't seem to be suffering any ill effects from it's brief dalliance with MacBooster2 but I'm keeping an eye on it. When it failed to run one day (the irony of a Mac maintenance tool falling victim to this didn't escape me) I took the opportunity to delete it and learn from my mistake. It didn't do any harm, just didn't do anything I couldn't do without it.

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The update manager in DivX shows no updates available, but this may because it was actually a legit update that had been 'tainted' but I don't know enough about malware propagation to know if this is possible.Д®ither way, there needs to be an intensive and concerted boycott of developers like IObit and Zeobit for the use of these tactics. dmg file found no threat, and neither did a scan of the installer it contained. I also have two AV services running - ClamX AV Sentry and Sophos and neither picked up on a potential threat. i got rid of Parallels because it was downloading update disk images to areas other than my downloads folder. dmg file containing the payload was delivered to a folder with a root level filepath rather than the downloads folder if I hadn't known where to look for it I would have had a hard time finding it. All the messages were genuine which makes me think that the installer somehow piggybacked a genuine installation. In this case I just did what I'd done a hundred times before and authorised an update to software I knew I had installed, had my security settings at a 'sensible' level, and at no point did it appear that I was doing anything other than running a DivX update.

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I actually did a walkthrough somewhere which involved me installing it on a machine I use for testing in order to prove to people how many time they would have to authorise the install of the malware themselves, but this is quite a different experience.

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you then had to go through a number of authorisation levels before it would actually install, whereupon it created a 'fake' full screen desktop (which would have convinced anyone who doesn't rename their hard drive something other than Macintosh HD) apparently teeming with viruses but it was really just a browser window rendered in Java. This is similar to what happened with Mac Defender, which didn't fool me for a second, but MacDefender was different in that it used a poisoned URL which force-downloaded an installer. I've had DivX on my machine since the PPC days and I would have downloaded it from the DivX vendor site.

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Removing bad software gets trickier, and it is best left to your consulting the vendors in question, other than Mackeeper, which I've linked above to how to remove. If you are backed up at least twice, we can suggest other things like repairing the directory, and checking the hardware test for errors. Repairing permissions through Disk Utility can help. Stick to known software sites such as Apple's Mac App Store and software vendors themselves.Дo not download updates because Adobe says there is an update available, go directly to Adobe's website to get the update. When it comes to slowdown, once your system is backed, you should make sure the hard drive isn't over 85% full.ДЄnti-virus, Mackeeper, firewall software are the worst, and really are not necessary unless you engage in risky behavior such as peer2peer software, and torrent reading.

Suffice it to say, the only regular maintenance a Mac needs is backing up. The problem is that cache file cleaning of the system can actually lead to cache corruption. System cache cleaning, which is one of many of these vendors hallmark, actually slows it down! Any software that purports to make the Mac faster is selling snake oil.

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