Mac Viruses

Mac Heal Pro is deceptive Mac optimisation application. After installation, it opens on the whole screen and starts a fake system scan. It does not give users the opportunity to resize the window. When the scan is finished, Mac Heal Pro offers paid activation, which costs $60 - $70. The problem is, that viruses, errors and performance issues, found by this app, never existed on your Mac. Mac Heal Pro is categorized as rogue program, fake optimization software. The virus poses a threat to the financial security and privacy of the users, due to its misleading tactics, untrustworthy scan results, and unscrupulous developers. There are also some complaints, that Mac Heal Pro cannot be removed, or keeps coming back.

Similar Photo Cleaner is ad-supported application for Mac. It was developed to detect and remove duplicate photos and pictures. It is one of those pointless apps, that provide low functionality, but leads to severe computer and privacy problems. It installs without user's consent, and does not disclose all conditions of the installation. The consequences of installing the program are pitiable: users start seeing ads and pop-ups in browsers, they get unknown programs installed without their intention. Besides, some users complain, that they cannot quit Similar Photo Cleaner, as it displays pop-up, that cannot be closed (see the picture below). All this peculiar properties put the program to the category of potentially unwanted apps.

Smart Mac Booster is fake anti-virus and optimization software for Mac. It can be called an imposed application, as it is offered for download to users after an "in-browser" virus or error scan, that finds "severe issues". Of course, a real system scan cannot be performed in any browser, this is just a pretext to get Smart Mac Booster installed on a Mac. After infiltrating the system, the unwanted application initiates a quick scan and finds a huge amount of problems, that have to be fixed. In the end, the results are announced by the female computer voice. When victims try to resolve the problems, the software offers to buy the license. But what really puts the program in a category of badware is, that if users try to uninstall it from Applications, it'll either won't allow them to do it by showing alerts and warnings or will leave residual persistent module, that will cause errors in macOS.

Advanced Mac Cleaner is a rogue Mac optimization program, that provides false scan results in order to make users purchase the program. It shows users alerts and pop-ups messages saying, that their Mac has severe issues and/or viruses. Advanced Mac Cleaner has quality design and looks like many other programs of this type. Although application, obviously, uses misleading tactics to promote itself and forces users to buy it, most antiviruses cannot detect Advanced Mac Cleaner.

Mac Cleanup Pro is fraudulent application for macOS. It uses the deceptive tactic to infiltrate user's computers, performs a fake scan for viruses and errors and always finds severe problems, even on brand new machines. It then asks ~$120 for program activation and removal of non-existent viruses. After this Mac Cleanup Pro encourages people to call Premium Techie Support, where a real person (probably from India or China) will try to sell additional support plans and applications like Mac Space Reviver, Mac Adware Cleaner, and Unpollute My Mac, that cost from $300 to $600. This is totally scam, and you need to block and chargeback all these transactions. After this, please, perform instructions on this page to remove Mac Cleanup Pro and all residual data, and get the software to protect your Mac from malicious applications.

Mac Auto Fixer (a clone of rogue Mac Defender) is bogus Mac OS optimization and antivirus utility. Maftask is the name of the main process of this deceptive application. It claims to find numerous errors, viruses, and other issues on clean machines. After deeper research, those problems appear to be non-existent or not essential. Mac Auto Fixer asks 118 Euros for a 2-year license to fix these issues. There are and there will be lots of applications similar to Mac Auto Fixer, but with other names and designs. There are few proven apps for Mac, that are not only able to perform Mac OS maintenance, but also remove potentially unwanted programs, like Mac Auto Fixer.

Captcha-verification.systems is an untrustworthy and even dangerous website, that uses technical features of modern browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Edge, Safari) to push ads, pop-ups and notifications to users desktops. In particular, notifications function in those browsers, which was invented and developed for convenience on news and video sites, is exploited by third-party advertising cloacas, like Captcha-verification.systems and similar, for delivering unwanted and fairly annoying ads directly to the desktop. Often, this is a result of virus infection, but sometimes website just tricks users changing the settings by using deceptive phrases.

Searchmarquis.com or Search Marquis is search site, that causes undesired consequences in browsers. The hijacker can infect Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox on macOS. After infiltration, it modifies settings of the homepage and search engine to http://www.searchmarquis.com. This is intermediary search page with minimalistic design, as you can see in the picture below, that redirects typed queries to Yahoo.com, Bing.com, Baidu, Yandex.ru, depending on the geolocation of the user. The principle of operation of Searchmarquis.com is based on hijacking browsers, referring traffic to affiliate search systems and getting a revenue share. Along with that website has a poor privacy policy and can collect browsing data and sell it to advertising companies.