{"id":3440,"date":"2011-05-27T14:57:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T19:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2011-05-27T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T19:57:26","slug":"mac-defender-pay-attention-but-dont-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/mac-defender-pay-attention-but-dont-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Defender: Pay Attention But Don&rsquo;t Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/160098\/2011\/05\/macdefender.html\">Rich Mogull<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/160098\/2011\/05\/macdefender.html\"><p>Online crime falls mostly into four categories: self-spreading malware (like viruses); malware that attacks vulnerable Web browsers when you visit a site (drive-by attacks); malware that tricks you into installing it (like Mac Defender); and online scams and Web attacks that don&rsquo;t hack your computer (eBay scams, phishing, search-result poisoning, and so on). Macs are still unlikely to see the first or fully-automated versions of the second. Mac users have always faced the fourth. But as our numbers grow, it&rsquo;s only natural we will see more of the third.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think most longtime Mac users have experienced that installing anti-virus software causes far more problems it solves, so it&rsquo;s ironic that in this case it still seems to be true. Not worrying about malware would have protected you from Mac Defender.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Mogull: Online crime falls mostly into four categories: self-spreading malware (like viruses); malware that attacks vulnerable Web browsers when you visit a site (drive-by attacks); malware that tricks you into installing it (like Mac Defender); and online scams and Web attacks that don&rsquo;t hack your computer (eBay scams, phishing, search-result poisoning, and so on). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}