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Generally malware is more prevalent on underground, software piracy, and pornographic Web sites, but numerous people have reported the current Trojans showing up when browsing MSN and other reputable sites. With the malware removed your system should be good to go however, there is always the possibility that the malware will change in the future and adopt a new name or a new method of trying to trick users. Then go to the 'Login Items' tab and remove any reference to the software from that list. Go to the 'Accounts' system preferences and choose your account name. So far the program is launched at log-in by the system's 'Login Items' feature. When you have done this, empty the trash. Also locate the installer file (likely in your Downloads directory, or wherever you have Safari store downloaded items) and move it to the trash as well. Go to the /Applications folder and move the program to the trash (it should likewise be called 'MacDefender,' 'Mac Security,' or 'Mac Protector'). Sudo killall macdefender macsecurity macprotector If you want to use the Terminal to do this, you can run the following command to kill the processes by name (the 'sudo' portion may not be needed, but this will ensure the system can fully kill the running processes): With the malware selected in Activity Monitor, click the 'Quit Process' button and confirm to quit it (use the force-quit option if it will not quit).

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Reputable antivirus software for your system will be running under the user name 'root' and will have required a full installation that required you to supply your administrator credentials. The malware should be called 'MacDefender,' 'MacSecurity,' or 'MacProtector' and will be running under the current user's name (see the 'User' column of activity monitor). Open the Activity Monitor utility and perform a search for the malware (or browse through the list of running processes for it-sort by name to prevent the list from jumping around). However, if you have opened the downloaded files and especially if you are seeing the malicious behaivor (unwanted pornographic sites randomly opening), or the scanner program launching and saying you have infected files, then you will need to check for and remove the program. If you have only visited the site and have not downloaded any files, then you do not need to do anything. If you have not installed any programs or opened any files downloaded from these sites, then you should be good to go and can just delete the downloaded files. Luckily the malware is fairly easy to remove, as it basically runs as a background process on your system that is launched by an action the user takes (logging in, etc.). If you provide your information to the program, you chance identity theft and charges to your credit cards. The program is distributed in several forms that so far have taken the names 'Mac Defender,' 'Mac Security,' and 'Mac Protector.' When installed it will run in the background and launch pornographic Web sites and other unwanted content, and show a fairly clean and crisp-looking scanner interface that will ask you to purchase an upgrade.

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If you have seen the 'Apple Security Center' Web site and have clicked on the 'Remove All' button, the site will download an installer file for malware that runs locally on your system.

They want to know what they can do to check for and remove the malware. In the past few days since these scams surfaced, a number of MacFixIt readers have contacted us wondering about whether or not their systems are safe after having seen the site on their systems or even downloading the files to their computers. Despite warnings about these new malware attempts, numerous people have fallen for these efforts and have downloaded and installed the malware distributed by these sites.

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Recently a new series of Trojan horse attempts have targeted OS X users with downloadable malware applications that try to lure you to providing personal information, and with malicious Web sites that trick you into downloading malware onto your systems.

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