#MAC CLEANER SCAM SOFTWARE#
#MAC CLEANER SCAM MAC#

Therefore, PUAs can cause serious system invasions/infections and lead to severe privacy issues (even culminate in identity theft). This data is then sold to third parties (possibly, cyber criminals) and it can end up serving criminal purposes.

By spying on users' browsing activity (URLs visited, pages viewed, search engine history), they can attain personal information (IP address, geolocation and real-life user identity details). pop-ups, surveys, banners, coupons, etc.) and some can even gather vulnerable information. Instead, they generate unauthorized redirects to untrustworthy and malignant sites, run intrusive advertisement campaigns (e.g. In general, undesirable applications are rarely functional. It must be emphasized, that these cleaning tools are fraudulent - in other words, they do not have any system scanning or threat-removal capabilities. an abundance of unused additions or an excess of temporary files, a variety of system infections and etc.), however all the problems they show are not actually present. When opened they display long lists of various issues (e.g.

#MAC CLEANER SCAM MAC#

Fake Mac cleaning tools are designed to look similar to actual cleaning software. All PUAs are designed to appear highly legitimate. It can also be disguised as the installation file for other software, however instead of installing the desired content, it installs unwanted apps. Additionally, maccleaner.pkg can be downloaded along with fake Flash Player updaters, the latter - also nonfunctional.

#MAC CLEANER SCAM SOFTWARE#

This file (and others of its kind) are spread through various scam websites, which can present innocuous looking products or warn of present dangers and offer software capable of removing them. This file is used for installation of unwanted software (like the examples given above) onto the MacOS. After clicking the download/install button, maccleaner.pkg file is downloaded. Relevant examples of such include: Cleanup My Mac, MacOptimizer, Advanced Mac Cleaner and others.

Once accessed, mac-cleanerspace offers to download/install some sort of Mac cleaner (usually, with advertised features, such as: file protection and organization, system memory optimization and similar). The latter of which, require no express user permission to invade their systems. What is also noteworthy, is that visitors to mac-cleanerspace rarely access it intentionally and in most case are redirected by intrusive ads or adware-type PUAs already present in their device. It should be mentioned, that this site may also proliferate PUAs (potentially unwanted applications) with different 'features' from Mac cleaners, though any such would also be fraudulent. The advertised software can supposedly remove various system invasions/infections, however it is most likely illegitimate and therefore nonoperational. It is designed to lure users into downloading various nonfunctional cleaning tools for the MacOS (Mac operating system). Mac-cleanerspace is a scam website, similar to, , and many others.

Mac cleaner scam