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Safari Automatically Launched an Installer - Possible Bug?

Hello, today I was searching for some midi files on google. I clicked on a search result and up popped an installer window that wanted to install a program called ****4Mac. I immediately quite the installer. Is this a possible problem with Safari? I wouldn't think that it should allow these to open automatically. At least in order for it to install you would have to go through the installer. I have included the link to the page so you can see what I am talking about.

DO NOT GO TO THIS LINK WITHOUT READING THE ABOVE!!!!!
http://mnafaref6.net/126362/

17" imac intel core duo, Mac OS X (10.5.3), Safari 3.1.1

Posted on Jun 17, 2008 7:38 PM

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Posted on Jun 18, 2008 1:52 AM

Hi wnichol

that's all too common I'm afraid...there's actually nothing to fear unless you actually run the installer it downloads, which will ask for an admin password & go on to modify your mac's settings so that when you try to reach a website, you could be redirected anywhere that the bad guys choose. If they were clever for example, they might only redirect financial websites... and you'd be taken to a convincing looking fake of your bank, which'd try to get passwords/login names etc etc - more commonly though, you'd simply get frequent ** sites .


there's a good basic explanation here at macworld & great detail on how it works here.
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there's a free removal tool at http://www.dnschanger.com/ which has been widely used by people on these & other forums.
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there's a lot of detail at http://tacit.livejournal.com/240750.html on the wider picture that this is part of.

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Jun 18, 2008 1:52 AM in response to wnichol

Hi wnichol

that's all too common I'm afraid...there's actually nothing to fear unless you actually run the installer it downloads, which will ask for an admin password & go on to modify your mac's settings so that when you try to reach a website, you could be redirected anywhere that the bad guys choose. If they were clever for example, they might only redirect financial websites... and you'd be taken to a convincing looking fake of your bank, which'd try to get passwords/login names etc etc - more commonly though, you'd simply get frequent ** sites .


there's a good basic explanation here at macworld & great detail on how it works here.
-----
there's a free removal tool at http://www.dnschanger.com/ which has been widely used by people on these & other forums.
---
there's a lot of detail at http://tacit.livejournal.com/240750.html on the wider picture that this is part of.

Safari Automatically Launched an Installer - Possible Bug?

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