Mac Owners, “No, you’re not infected”
I’m posting a link to a piece in MacWorld thats very relevant these days about “scary looking websites”, especially as a followup to another recent blog post I put up about Scam-Ware and Scare-Ware
“A reader says, ‘I used Yahoo to search for something and was sent immediately to the following [redacted] site. I believe my Mac was invaded and don’t know what to do!’
As Mr. Breen says: “First, relax. Your Mac wasn’t invaded, infected, compromised, co-opted, or conquered. If you’d clicked through a few of those dire pop-up warnings you might have been as amused as I was to see a phony Windows Security Alert appear on a Macintosh. What you’ve encountered is termed “scareware”.
I myself got linked to a website last night that just INSISTED on telling me how badly my “PC was infected” as it “scanned” my hard drive Registry (which doesn’t even exist on a Mac!) Of course, it offered to “fix and clean everything” for a fee. Total Bullsh$#@!. So above is very topical and worth a read. So be forewarned. The link again, here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/142200/2009/08/scareware.html?lsrc=nl_mwweek_h_cbintro
