How to Remove Mac Defender Fake Antivirus Program

Many security experts warns about malware threats for Mac computers. Mac Defender is a simple trojan that will fool the user pretend that it is friendly application and start installing all sort of adware and malware. It seems like many users were tricked as they always believe that the platform they are working on is quite safe. If your Mac is infected, it can be easily removed and bring back to normal state. You can apply the same methods and tricks you use in Windows OS to remove malware.

What is Mac Defender and what it dose?



It is a simple application designed to steal your credit card details and passwords

1:Click on a poison link
2:Click on a Install dialog (even though you are looking for a picture)
3 Put in your Administrator Password
4:Fill out a "registration" with credit card information
5:It basically denies every card you put in so that you keep putting in different credit cards.

In case your come a cross similar website, check twice and do not enter your credit card details.

How to remove MAC Defender from your Mac?

1. Close the Scan window that's opened.
2. Launch the Activity Monitor by going to your Applications folder,
3. Launch the Utilities folder. (also use the hot key combo of Shift+Command+U from the desktop)
4. Manually find all processes with names that match the rogue antivirus infection. Anything sounds like MacDefender, MacProtector, and MacSecurity, but you might be infected with a new variant that will have a similar but not identical name.
5 .Highlight the process, then click the Quit Process button.
6. Go to the Applications folder, and find your trojan - MacDefender, MacProtector, or MacSecurity.
7. Move the program to the Trash, and then empty the Trash.
8. Remove malware from the auto start program list
Apple Menu > System Preferences > System, Accounts > click Login Items.
Find the trojan antivirus program in the list, Click the Minus button, which will remove the program from startup.

Be sure you've followed all these steps, otherwise malware program will reinstall itself the next time you reboot your computer. You can also try safe mod if the malware continually restarting the program as you try to close the program.

How to remove MAC Defender from your Mac?


[CNET | smh |blog.intego]