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Mac Malware of 2022
- BudaDude 4y agoIs Clean My Mac X really malware?
- bluetidepro 4y agoThe apps at the top are their sponsors, not the malware. However, as someone else pointed out, probably dumb on their part to design it that way. haha
- sockaddr 4y agoWow, I actually did zoom in on the icons and tried to remember that software not to use. That is a horrible design/layout choice. Glad I read this comment. But I still wouldn’t install Clean My Mac, it shows up in the slimy parts of the web too often for me to think it’s legit.
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- askiiart 4y agoClean My Mac X I could believe, based on its name, to be malware. Sophos, on the other hand...
- sleepybrett 4y agoI've found CMMX to be fairly useful actually. A lot of software in this category can be pretty pestery and exploitative but I've been pretty happy with CMMX
- nerdponx 4y ago> CleanMyMac X is all-in-one package to awesomize your Mac. It cleans megatons of junk and makes your computer run faster. Just like it did on day one. Looks like it's badly infected with PatronizingPandering.exe... you might need to nuke this one from orbit and cut your losses.
- dandongus 4y agoPerhaps that's not the best place to list the sponsors.
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- favorited 4y agoTo be fair, I've seen JAMF make a Mac run so slowly that you'd think it was infected.
- JeremyHerrman 4y agoThis was my main thought as well, right after "Ah, so CleanMyMac X really is malware - I knew it!"
- brundolf 4y agoThat's... a long list, too long for me to read it all I think. Wish there were a summary of general trends/takeaways
- waterhouse 4y ago~> p | grep 'Infection Vector' | sort | uniq -c | sort -s -rnk1,1 4 Infection Vector: Unknown 3 Infection Vector: TypoSquatting 1 Infection Vector: (likely) Trojanized Disk Images 1 Infection Vector: Malicious Ads / Fake Update Prompt 1 Infection Vector: Safari Exploit 1 Infection Vector: Supply-chain attack 1 Infection Vector: Trojanized Disk Images(?) 1 Infection Vector: Unknown, possible via infected npm packages
- jsz0 4y agoHas anyone seen Mac malware that involves hyjacking accessibly/mouse input? I've come across several Macs in the last year with mysterious self moving cursors. I don't know what benefit there would be for malware to hyjack a mouse cursor so my assumption is they simply have hardware problems with their trackpads. Makes me paranoid tough.
- duxup 4y agoTypically random mouse movements are Bluetooth mice people forget are connected. I suggest checking for that/ disable Bluetooth to see what happens.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoYeah, I'd bet that this is what is happening. A few times in the offices of my workplaces I've seen cases of BT keyboards and mice randomly reconnecting to Macs they'd been paired with at some point in the past (even years back) and causing a short bout of chaos.
- varenc 4y agoI'm doubtful. It's certainly possible for malware to hijack mouse/keyboard control, with a local privilege escalation exploit, but I'm not sure what the point would be. Escalating to mouse/keyboard control is hard and any malware capable of doing that likely wouldn't need to.
- LeSaucy 4y agoAny app that allows accessibility persmissions has access. For example, I run a program called "Jiggler" whos job it is to jiggle my mouse during work hours as to prevent the teams "Away" status.
- 0xCMP 4y agoIf it's a closed laptop sometimes when they get very warm the touch pad starts getting activated. At least that is what the problem was for me a few years ago with Intel MBPs. There is an option to disable the track pad when using an external keyboard which was the perfect solution.