They perform their tasks well enough but also do other work in the background – a lot more than you’d be comfortable with actually. While the first one is supposed to unzip files, the second one cleans up your Mac and iPhones. Claims like that make sure that users will be more open to trust “shady” apps and not question what they are doing too much. According to they come from a developer that claims to be a rather big popular security company. It seems like a couple of them have recently slipped trough though. So far Apple has done a very fine job when it comes to keeping out malicious apps. Macs: Secure but not fool proofedĪpple claims to review each app before it enters their app store, which is one of the reasons why iPhones and Macs are touted as very secure.
If you are still skeptical recent events should help convincing you: Some pretty popular apps where siphoning off and afterwards sharing users’ data. Sadly that’s just not true anymore and everyone believing blindly in this tale is at a bigger risk than any PC user. Macs – a lot of people still believe in the myth that they are safe since there is no malware for the OS of their choice.
