Home Theme Mac OS X El Capitan theme for Win10 Mac OS X El Capitan theme for Win10 Posted By: skinpack on: August 02, 2015 In: Theme, Windows 10 4 Comments. Click to expand.' Herd immunity' does not apply here because we are not talking about malware that can spread between Macs, or even Mac malware that can spread to Win PCs. I could ask you to lookup 'natural selection' however that doesn't seem to apply to humans any longer as they do really stupid things every day like self inflicting infections on their otherwise extremely secure computers that have many, many layers of built in malware protection. I will say this over and over but installing active malware scanning software on your Mac almost certainly makes your Mac MORE vulnerable than is was without the software. This type of software is currently 'snake oil' on a Mac. It prevents nothing more than the Mac OS already protects against, yet integrates itself into the OS at a low level where it can introduce vulnerabilities that were not there in the first place. As is always the case with articles of Mac 'threats', the article that you have linked is the typical FUD that is published over and over by security researchers that want to peddle their wares. If you do just a bit or reading you would realize that this 'threat' requires that the user downloaded an application and then entered their administrative credentials! You clearly have not read and understood the article that you linked. Excel keyboard shortcuts printable. ![]() I have no problem with the folks at Malwarebytes as they have provided some great (mostly Windows) products in the past. But in this case the 'threat' still requires user self infliction to occur at all. Click to expand.Depending on the address(es) where you found dotDefender code(s), it's possible but very unlikely that your Mac was in some way compromised. What follows is vaguely technical. Not intended to make you feel in any way foolish. For me today resulted in code 0A6D-D795-10ED-03CA with reference to dotDefender, so It's reasonable to assume that UCLA uses and treats the product as suitably reputable. Internet Archive Wayback Machine captures for the same URL result in different codes, for example 9E11-8966-86F5-AF59 a few minutes ago (and there are 240 other captures over nineteen years, but I don't intend to seek a date when use of dotDefender began). In July 2016 for and so on. The site administrators might like to reconfigure their dotDefender installation(s) to not present alerts for base URLs such as those; in the meantime, the simplest explanation may be that the administrators do not expect people to visit those URLs during the course of normal browsing. UCLA aside Hiding of full addresses, by browsers such as Safari, may increase the incidence of wasted visits to base URLs, but that's a discussion for a different topic. Click to expand.If you are referring to the 'Genieo installer tricks keychain' article (I can't tell to whom you were replying), then, as the author of that article, I take exception to calling it 'FUD.' It is simply a description of the behavior of a particularly nasty Genieo installer that was utilizing a vulnerability in the system to gain access to the keychain without user permission.
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