Tremendous amounts of „Clean your Mac" is on Web; are it known and observed securizy attacks?
I would avoid any website pop-ups.
If you really think you need to clean your Mac, go with the well-known apps like MacKeeper etc.
However, Macs are very good at cleaning themselves and unless you have a specific issue, I wouldn't bother.
No idea what you're talking about. Are you referring to the software called Clean My Mac? If so, note that its cleaning features are really unnecessary, but it is certainly not malware.
If you really think you need to clean your Mac, go with the well-known apps like MacKeeper etc.
Do not, under any circumstances, purchase MacKeeper! In that case, the company is a borderline scammer. See Beware MacKeeper*.
* Disclaimer: links to my pages may give me compensation, and should not be taken as endorsement of my services by Apple.
Fair enough
Exaktely, Thomas, that is it what I meant.
It is not because of me; I am just in fear because users are not informed about security, and there have been attacks as you know.
But it is not my beer.
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Karl
I still have no idea what you're talking about. I don't know what attacks you're referring to, how Clean My Mac is related to that or what it is that you seem to want to warn users about.
Slowly.
On every thirth webpage I opend since three days
there was an insert „clean your mac“
this frequence on such inserts I never saw before.
as any people knows such announcements are often attacks
it is not because of me,
I know, in my case there is enough security on macs (I dont have sensitive data on my macs)
other people, and some folkes thinks for other peoples,
are afraid and take risc clicking on such things.
for your information: http://www.reedcorner.net/news.php/?p=245
It is matter of apple to inform users,
but in europe there comes N O T H I N G from Apple along security, there comes nothing about care for batteries longer life, there comes nothing about additional costs after buying a mac for data backup,
you are on the american side of the ocean, your fellows have perhaps support from the first hour on, we dont.
~k.
On every thirth webpage I opend since three days there was an insert „clean your mac“
Seeing ads on a number of web sites does not mean there's any kind of attack going on. If it did, MacKeeper would be attacking the entire world. Though that software is crap marketed by an unscrupulous company, it is not an attack.
for your information: http://www.reedcorner.net/news.php/?p=245
LOL, that's probably the first time someone has quoted my own writing back to me... 😉
but in europe there comes N O T H I N G from Apple along security, there comes nothing about care for batteries longer life, there comes nothing about additional costs after buying a mac for data backup
Again, I'm not sure what you're complaining about here or how it's related to anything else on this topic. Certainly Apple has documentation on all these issues on its web site, which I'm pretty sure is accessible from Europe.
😉
Have a nice evening (in Linz clock is 22:28 (10 p.m.),
Karl
The reason you see the same ad on every third webpage is because you have done a search for it, or something similar.
This information is then stored on your Mac as a tracking cookie which other websites can access and share.
Once they know it's something you've searched for, you'll see it on most webpages you visit from then on.
It's called targeted marketing
I now use something called Ghostery, which allows me to block ad tracking cookies easily and I'm not bugged with constant reminders about something I searched for weeks ago.
Dave, this is now totally plausible to me;
second, third time it happens I thought it is selected just through browsing agent/os.
So, thinking for others and posting thinkable risk/attack I got good advice for my web-experience Thank you!
Karl
Glad I could help
Interesting observations. I bought Mackeeper for both my macs this past weekend because several people on youtube recommended it including a video review from some guy from Macworld. (I figured if Macworld recommends it it must be good) I never though of looking for a review of it here until this evening.
I userstand (now) that there were other ways to clean my system that would be cheaper (or free) so THAT sure stinks for me but as far as I can tell the program is doing what it advertises. And yes ... a virus program on a Mac seems silly but that isn't why I bough it. I bought it because I know when I deleted a large program like Logic Pro from my Macbook (still have it and use it on my iMac) it left a ton of unused files on my hard drive and the idea of purging unused items like unused files and languages I'll never use apealed to me.
I'll keep a close eye on my systems to see if I start having issues after reading your comments and if i do i'll delete the program and take the loss in $. But if they keep working and i see no pop-up crap or slow downs i'll keep using it. (Minus the worthless virus protection of course ... THAT program running in the background WILL slow down your machine.)
On the other hand you must have any good virus detection if you get particular docs (ms office or so) from others (say as a lector) and lead it to the rest of the class.
~k.
Just FYI, I've had Mackeeper for about 4 weeks so far and have only received ONE Mackeeper pop-up a few weeks ago and it had an option that said do not allow anymore Mackeeper pop-ups. So far so good, no more pop-ups. I understand (now) that several of the functions it does could have been had for FREE if i knew where to look however the program is functioning perfectly on both my Macs, keeps them clean, helps totally uninstall unwanted programs, securely gets rid of files much faster than doing a secure delete with the built in Apple trash program, and the encriptor works like a charm.
Again i may have been able to get most of these functions for free (or maybe already had some) if i did more searching and knew what to look for but for a person like me (non-power user) this program is great. ***** if the company has low morals as has been mentioned in this thread but as a consumer not knowing about this i'm happy so far with the program. Oh yeah ... virus protection on a MAC is not needed and if you run the virus protection part of the program it DOES slow down you computer ... as any virus protector would. But then again if I were running a partition with Windows (which i don't) I'd need a virus protection program so for those also running Windows this feature is probably useful.
All in all I'm happy with the program and DON'T feel like i've been screwed or my computer has been "corrupted," both computers are working awesome. If you want to screw up your computer apparently all you need to do is download lion!
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