Recently I was working in University City on a fake rouge antivirus on a MAC! And no this was not just a advertisement or popup, it was a downloaded and installed application and I expect more on the way. Here is a step to take yourself out of harms way, the best offense is a good defense. By preventing safari from automatically opening "safe" files the user is less likely to get tricked into this scam. Here are the simple steps.
We need to change a setting in Safari so that these types of programs are not automatically run on your computer in the future. By default Safari opens and launches programs that it considers safe to run. These programs include movies, pictures, sounds, PDFs, text documents, archives, and disk images. Due to this, these types of infections are able to be downloaded and automatically run on your Mac. To fix this, start the Safari program and then click on the Safari menu option. From the Safari drop down menu, select Preferences. This will open the Preferences screen as shown below. When the screen opens, if you are not on the General settings screen, please click on the General button.
And for the curious people out there it was called Mac Guard and you can learn about it here at bleeping computer
Removing of virus is a hectic task.So it's better to prevent rather than curing it. You had shared nice and important information regarding mac virus. Thanks for sharing,
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