Um dos benefícios de ser um usuário do Mac é aquele geralmente você não tem que preocupar-se sobre o spyware, o malware e os vírus completamente tanto quanto um usuário de Windows. No fato, até que eu funcionar transversalmente MacScan, Eu honesta não soube mesmo que havia um varredor do spyware para ósmio X. O poço que gira para fora lá está - assim que eu dei um funcionamento. O seguinte tutorial guiá-lo-á com usar MacScan verificar seu Mac para ver se há o spyware, o malware, seguindo os bolinhos etc.
Para expandir um bocado em minha introdução - primeiramente, e o mais importante - lá seja benefícios a ser um usuário do ósmio X/Mac. Há uns benefícios a estar um usuário de Windows, e uns benefícios a estar um usuário de Linux. Eu sou um believer da empresa que o “mais melhor” sistema se operando é esse que trabalha melhor para você. Esse os Macs são geralmente menos de um alvo quando vem ao spyware e o malware é um de seus benefícios. Assim - faça-o realmente uniforme necessidade um varredor do spyware se você estiver usando um Mac? Eu suponho que depende de sua situação. Se seu Mac for usado em um ambiente da produção do negócio, você tem limas incredibly confidenciais, ou você quer apenas descansar sabendo que seu Mac é tão seguro como você pode o fazer - então certo, vale a pena colocar $29.99 (USD) para MacScan. O bônus grande é que há (quase) um programa demostrativo inteiramente funcional disponível, assim que você pode dar-lhe uma tentativa antes que você compre. Com o toda a isso dito - é aqui como verificar seu Mac para ver se há baddies potenciais que usam MacScan.
- Download MacScan, o programa demostrativo. Instalar MacScan é uma brisa - você estalará em seguida algumas vezes, e aquele é ele. Depois que instalou, encontre-o no seu Aplicações dobrador. Dobro-clique MacScan aplicação para lançá-lo.
- Direita - ser-lhe-á perguntado afastado se você quiser MacScan funcionar na modalidade authenticated. Clique Sim.
- E incorpore sua senha quando alertado.
- Se você estiver usando o programa demostrativo, agora o tempo lembrá-lo-á desse fato. Anote as limitações da programa-modalidade (nenhumas varreduras do costume, nenhum CD da exploração, DVDs ou movimentações duras externas). Clique Programa demostrativo para continuar.
- Finally, the main MacScan interface.
- Click the Scan button. The screen offering different types of scans will open. Review the info on the Quick Scan page. Essentially, it will scan your home folder, and that’s it. Select the Full Scan tab.
- As its name indicates, full scan will scan your entire hard drive. And now click Custom Scan. Click the Info button on the top menu.
- Custom scan allows you to specify which folders are scanned. Since we’re using the Demo version of MacScan, this feature is disabled.
- From here you can review and get some basic info on the various types of spyware that MacScan will detect. Select an item from the drop down list, and its description will appear in the main menu. When you’re done reviewing, click the Prefs button in the upper-right corner of the top menu.
- Place a check in the box labeled Detect remote administration programs. Note: this is disabled by default, because there are a number of legitimate applications that MacScan might pick up on and notify you of. You won’t necessarily want to delete or disable these, as they may in fact be running intentionally. Click OK to continue.
- Again click the Scan button, and select Full Scan. Click Scan
Now sit back and wait. And wait. In fact, go grab a coffee, cause this will take a while. My MacBook Pro has 850,000 files (give or take) and it took about 20 minutes for a full scan to complete.
- In the end, it found 21 tracking cookies. As I mentioned earlier, Macs have a great history of being relatively spyware free (certainly vs. Windows). I’ve downloaded freeware, shareware, software in development etc - from all across the Internet. I’ve jailbroken my iPod Touch using every possible method. And MacScan returned nothing but tracking cookies (which are certainly annoying, but far less harmful than a trojan horse or resource hogging spyware/malware).
- Select an item from the list, and its description will be displayed in the lower window. Click the Isolate button to remove the items MacScan finds. Note: again - be sure that MacScan didn’t find a legitimate remote administration program - if it did, unselect it before you click Isolate so it’s not accidentally deleted.
- MacScan will now confirm that you really do in fact want to delete the items it found. Click Yes to do so.
- Now click Done to return to the main menu.
- MacScan provides a nice little report of its history (last time a scan was run, number of items found etc). That’s it - you’re done! Now you may want to scan your Mac for viruses.
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Knowing security is important. Most people are blinded by the word ’security + mac’ your current security program probably is not secure the way it should be.
What I would like to see for Mac is some ‘free’ scanners. Granted MacScan is the only scanner (apparently) for Mac and as such they are in a unique market position, but why do I need to pay for something which I can get free on another OS? The whole “oh its on mac so therefor worth the money” argument is in getting old.
I just downloaded the latest demo of Macscan and noticed that they don’t offer to clear your history or cookies (web files) anymore. Any word on that?
Yeah, I saw that MacScan doesn’t permit actual *removal* of the offending “spyware” - not even allowed to *see* what that is - not very helpful in terms of a demo then is it? I’ve read in a few places now that while MacScan is the only software available to scan your mac it really does jack**** - I’m not about to shell out 30.00 to prevent cookies being present on my machine.
Grade B-, needs improvement
Very nice write up. Thanks for the guide! When I saw MacScan I wasn’t too sure about it but thanks to your blog in combination with other blogs that I have read about MacScan, I decided to give it a try.
Cheers
Exx
I’ve been searching for any documented accounts of macintosh spyware infestations. Can’t seem to find any, nor any virus accounts either. All I can find is Macro viruses, courtesy of Microsoft, which only impact files created by Microsoft products. I think we all need to go worry about something else now.
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