I am a very novice computer owner, and bought a Mac as I had heard they were much more secure than ''windows''. One evening I was on Google Images, and ''Apple security center'' with safari logo came up saying it had scanned my computer and foundI had been infected with more viruses than it was possible for me to have ''caught'' during the few days I had owned my computer..plus it said I had got infections via ''file sharing''-well, as a novice, I have never shared a file, so thought it sounded suspicious, and all the jiggly jumpy ''shouty'' style did not look ''apple like'', but the page would not close, and I clicked on something that looked like a software update, and was then able to close the page-this was May 2nd.
When the hoo hah broke about these scams, I looked in my downloads and sure enough the nasty little ''macdefender''was there, looking like an ''apple'' device I had seen earlier ,the cardboard box with yellow boxes inside.
I phoned the store, and was going to get them to reset my computer, and luckily it was found that I had downloaded the horrid thing, but had not installed it, so it was removed by someone who knew what they were doing, luckily.
However, yesterday, June 3rd, I was on the web, and up came a warning saying ''unsafe programmes running on your computer, and I noticed similar ''safari'' type logo used, this time I force quit safari, and as I had ''unchecked'' the ''safe'' downloads button, nothing nasty appears to be on my computer.
As an older user, I was not bought up with computers, and it IS alarming to have this stuff thrown up at you, what is odd is that my family have used Macs since they came out years ago, and have not been bothered by these scam sites, whereas me, as a new user has had them three times!
[every two weeks since may 2nd]
It does make me very wary of using the internet, but I will keep up with software updates, and carry on with the ''One to One lessons'' for new users.