Anyway, even downloading stuff from places like Softonic you can’t be totally sure you’re on the safe side these days.Īssume you happen to get tricked into getting the malign drive-by. Be advised most of the time the adware program is not clearly listed in the installation wizard and it typically takes a heck of a lot reading the setup terms to catch sight of something that shouldn’t be there. When downloading these, even from trustworthy portals, people have no idea something unsafe may also infiltrate the operating system through the inclusive setup package. Getting in trouble with InstallMac is fairly trivial as the respective payload often bundles with normal applications. So let’s see what happens if you get attacked by this potentially unwanted program designed for disrupting the web browsing side of using a Mac. It was recently discovered that the said Mac adware uses several different web domains serving as landing pages for the compromised users to recurrently end up on.
In one of the previous entries we - the MacSecurity team - highlighted the details of the InstallMac adware, which is part of the wide-ranging Genieo fraud. Get a description of the adware and learn up-to-date methodology for removing it from the affected Mac.
