Regardless of how you may feel about anti-malware software developers for the Mac platform, you have to appreciate that Intego is warning Mac users of anti-malware software that’s at best completely ineffective, at worst selling your bank and other personal information. At time of writing, the site was locked behind a password prompt.
MacGuard is part of a growing trend that takes advantage of inexperienced, naive computer users that in an attempt to guard against the evils of the internet, download the software they are trying to guard against. It’s yet another example of social engineering.
As OS developers like Apple and Microsoft get more clever and close up security holes, the real threat will be from software that preys on probably the weakest link in any security system, the human fallibility factor. While I’d hope that everyone is careful about what they download, it needs to go double for something as serious as security software.
