Windows users are used to being pitched registry cleaners and system cleaners. Some of them are good, legit software. Others are complete shams. Well, now the world of Apple is getting in on the game.
The folks at F-Secure have found the first rogue cleaning tool for OS X. It is called MacSweeper. As F-Secure puts it:
It claims to clean your Mac from compromising files and it will always find something to fix/clean but the only way to do so is to buy the program.
And to prove even more than it is crap, they tried it on Windows. Result?
Even more telling that it’s a scam is the fact that when you visit the MacSweeper website with a PC and click on "Scan", it will tell you that you have security vulnerabilities in folders that only exist on Mac like system_root/home. Fake? Oh yeah…
Apple users? Welcome to the world of Windows. Where popularity means nobody is exempt from annoyances like this.
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