MAC Defender variant quickly thwarts Apple’s Mac OS X security update – Apple Insider

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MAC Defender variant quickly thwarts Apple's Mac OS X security update Apple Insider By AppleInsider Staff A day after Apple released a security update for Mac OS X to address the "MAC Defender" malware, a new variant of the bogus antivirus software has been spotted in the wild. As first reported by Ed Bott at ZDNet, the new variation … Mac scareware gang evades Apple's new anti-malware defensesComputerworld Apple's malware detection update circumvented in 8 hoursCNET Apple's Mac Defender patch is already worthlessBetaNews TechNewsWorld -TG Daily -InfoWorld all 134 news articles »

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