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I wanted to give this three stars as maybe useful, middling sort of freeware. There is no important reason to bother finding the other items on the search list of DetectX. Any of the reputable anti-malware applications can find Wirelurker malware. AdwareMedic finds ALL Mac malware AND removes it. I'd suggest getting better programs to find AND remove both the malware and adware. Overall, this is just a detection program, not a removal program. I personally recommend staying away from the Symantec stuff.
The best commercial anti-malware for client computer is, IMHO, Intego's VirusBarrier. For malware, try both ClamXAV and Sophos Anti-Virus, which are free.
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For adware, get Thomas Reed's free AdwareMedic, which is excellent. For ADWARE and MALWARE, use appropriate and reputable removal tools. But I would NOT use DetectX for that purpose except for innocuous stuff. You can "Show" the items DetectX finds, therefore, you can manually remove these items. That may be all DetectX detects, but don't consider this a complete list. H) Firefox MyBrowserBar extensions - ADWARE. Nothing bad.į) Yontoo/YontooLayers - Nefarious ADWARE. It did once infect victims with adware, earning it a bad reputation.ĭ) Trovi - Web browser hijacking malware.Į) SafariOmnibar - This is some old extension for Safari some people didn't like.
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But my digging around in the code did reveal the following searches:Ī) DivX - This is a cruddy old video codex with related player and encoder software, basically just useless junk. There is no explanation as to what this is, including at the developer's website. Why is it detected?ħ) Lastly, DetectX searches for 'Misc Badware'. I suppose it's good to know if you have it because it's utterly out-of-date and useless.ĥ) CleanMyMac - Again, an ordinary Mac cleanup utility of no bad reputation or good. Why is it detected?Ĥ) iAntiVirus - WHY? This is indeed possibly the worst of the available free anti-malware applications, long ago abandoned by awful Symantec.
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Use anti-malware to remove it! Manual removal may not get all of it.ģ) MacCleanse - This is an ordinary Mac clean up utility. I know Apple has blocked its installation via its XProtect system built into OS X. The theory goes that this malware was only ever used in China by the Chinese communist government in order to spy on their own citizens. Below are my results:ġ) MacKeeper - Fine, good riddance to worst-in-class rubbish.Ģ) Wirelurker - This is MALWARE. DetectX lacks commercial polish, but it certainly fills a gap in the security wall that nothing else does.Īnalysis: I've done some superficial digging around in 'DetectX' to find out what it does. I find apps like this cut a nice compromise. I take security seriously but I’m not going to get into all the anti-virus s/w bullshit. It should be made clearer what is the nature of this s/w: freeware? shareware? donation ware? or just commercial ware? The way I read that licensing window, it would fit a definition of any one and all of them. It’s perfectly fine to ask people to either donate or buy a license, but this developer seems to be confusing the two. The second niggle is the licensing thing.
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My advice is when you see a ‘update available’ alert, cancel out, and zip or copy the version you have to a safe place before doing the update.
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If you’re doing security software like this you really can’t be relying on “dialogue” with your users to figure out if you’ve made a major mistake. The main one for me is the developer has a history of releasing updates that really haven’t been tested thoroughly enough. That's the good stuff, but I have a couple of niggles with DetectX. The most important function of this app, and the reason why I’ll keep using it, is the ‘recorder’ - basically, every time you run this app it’ll compare your system set up at that time with how it was the last time it ran and tell you what’s changed. If you know your way around a mac already this function isn’t terribly useful, and if you don’t you probably shouldn’t be messing around in such places, but I do like the fact I can navigate places like LaunchAgents in both ~/Library and /Library in one location and not have to go digging through the Finder. Secondly, it’ll let you easily see in one view some of the diverse places where other crapware hide and execute their bile from. The start up screen lets you do a ‘search & destroy’ on a bunch of common ‘criminals’ (mackeeper, of course, and a few others, though it’s not clear exactly what all of them are). This is a useful app, though there’s a couple of niggles.
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