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OSX/Imunizator
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Macintosh
- Discovery Date
- 03/26/2008
- Minimum DAT
- 5260 (03/26/2008)
- Updated DAT
- 5260 (03/26/2008)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 03/26/2008
- Description Modified
- 03/31/2008 2:02 AM (PT)
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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.
OSX/Imunizator is believed to be a rebranded version of OSX/MacSweeper.
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 redirects the user to a website to warn the user that the MAC system is in danger of credit card information compromised. It then follows to recommend buying the software before providing any solution.
Removal
AVERT recommends to always use latest DATs and engine. This threat will be cleaned if you have this combination.Aliases
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