Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: One More Time: Mac Antivirus Software? Date: 19 Feb 2017 20:50:46 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net 0vX9cMXWrSonBi/322zmSQcZ04hNGweYokc63LyPYmaVEfRP+L Cancel-Lock: sha1:5Jwm42Qrb4u7kkWsQoJVakGx/Rc= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:100701 On 2017-02-19, MeV wrote: > > My reply isn't snarky, just cautionary. I became the "mac" person in > IT mostly because the software developers discovered I knew Macs. A > design engineer needed Office installed and left his laptop with me > over lunch, meanwhile complaining about all these pop-up ads for > MacKeeper, even if Safari wasn't running. I figured he was just > browsing hostile sites until it happened during the Office > Installation on Microsoft's site. So I did some poking around. > Something had installed a LaunchDaemon that weekend, so I asked him > when he came for his laptop. > > "I installed Steam so I could do some on-line gaming." I've used Steam for years with zero malware/adware problems. So I suspect you've been lied to. He probably installed something *else* with bundled adware in it - perhaps from CNET Downloads, VersionTracker, MacUpdate, or another download site that inserts adware into downloads. ; ) > Moral: There's no programming fix for evil. Or stupid. Yep. > Granted this was a trojan which anyone could have fallen prey to. Easy fix: Don't download software from untrusted sources. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR