Beware of MacGuard!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008



The debate continues whether or not Mac's are safe from viruses, and after a bit of research, Mac users have less to worry about, compared to our poor windows brothers and sisters! But beware, for no hacker rests, and the people from Intego have warned against a bogus website macguard.net. It is a word for word copy of winguard.com. WinGuard "hijacks the user's desktop and typically displays exaggerated or false claims of spyware found to frighten the user into paying for the program," according to Sunbelt Malware Research Labs. Though nothing downloads when clicking the macguard download link.
The company behind winguard, Innovagest 2000 SL, may be using the credit card numbers they collect when buying the software.

Simply put, the warning is this, do not trust any website that proclaims to be doing something good! We all are ultimately responsible for our own actions on the net, and need to be vigilant at all times.

This is a list of some of the website reporting this problem:
TUAW
ars technica
MacDailyNews
Intego
Sunbelt

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