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OSX/MacSweeper

Type
Program
SubType
Macintosh
Discovery Date
01/16/2008
Length
Minimum DAT
5210 (01/17/2008)
Updated DAT
5210 (01/17/2008)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
01/16/2008
Description Modified
01/16/2008 2:31 AM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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Characteristics

McAfee(R) Avert Labs recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.aspx for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.aspx for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.

This application is marketed as a system cleaner and performance optimizer for MacOSX systems. When run, it detects many files including popular applications that are installed with MacOSX, such as iTunes,  Address Book, iPhoto et cetera as "Trash".

When the user tries to remove them as recommended, it prompts the user to buy the software before providing any solution.

 

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Characteristics

Characteristics -

McAfee(R) Avert Labs recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.aspx for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.aspx for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.

This application is marketed as a system cleaner and performance optimizer for MacOSX systems. When run, it detects many files including popular applications that are installed with MacOSX, such as iTunes,  Address Book, iPhoto et cetera as "Trash".

When the user tries to remove them as recommended, it prompts the user to buy the software before providing any solution.

 

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