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  • Mac malware jumps more than 60% in three months, massive uptick in adware

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    dewme said:
    The way the article is worded makes it sound like MacKeeper, MacBooster, and MplayerX are also malware. Is this true?
    Yes. Countless articles have been written about the nefarious nature of MacKeeper (start here), same with the others. Their market arms are too good, though, and with the large number of people moving to Macs, especially those used to viruses everywhere, it's fighting a losing game. 

    I run a large sales force, and I won't work with any of them until they remove MacKeeper and MacBooster from their Macs (not familiar with MplayerX).

    Personally, I've been using Macs daily since '92 and have never had a single virus or run any anti-virus software. I have gotten browser-based malware, but that only affected that particular browser, and as CharlesAtlas mentioned above, the free version of Malwarebytes took care of it.   
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