MacKeeper 'gets Apple security clearance'

guest · Nov 26, 2020

MacKeeper 'gets Apple security clearance'
Notoriously hard-to-uninstall security program gets permission from Apple to place itself deep in your system
November 25, 2020
https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mackeeper-security-clearance-apple-3798653/

MacKeeper is a program that's been infamous among Mac users for many years. It isn't malware by most definitions, but the makers have been known to use all sorts of marketing tricks to get the software inside your Mac, from which it is inordinately hard to dislodge (as you'll see in our lengthy tutorial explaining how to uninstall MacKeeper).

It purports to be a program that cleans and keeps order in your Mac, and a few users have told us that they find it useful. But they are very much in the minority: the free version used to show messages about various security flaws that the paid-for version would remedy but which, users allege, simply do not exist. It has therefore been widely referred to as spam and even "scamware".
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Now Thomas Reed, head of Mac and mobile development at antivirus developer Malwarebytes, has discovered that the latest version of MacKeeper uses a system extension that has been approved by Apple.

You won't give me and other security researchers the EndpointSecurity entitlement, but you give f[***] MacKeeper the entitlement?!?! [...]
— Thomas Reed (@thomasareed) November 23, 2020
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Specifically, Apple has given MacKeeper's developer certificates the right to sign applications that use the Endpoint Security framework used by antivirus software, for example.
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guest · Nov 26, 2020

MacKeeper
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat...are-and-puas/MacKeeper/detailed-analysis.aspx

MacKeeper is a utility software suite for MacOS that offers various features including system cleanup, optimization, anti-theft, backup and security capabilities, including anti-virus.

When installed MacKeeper initiates a scan and claims to have detected many issues on a user’s machine. It then tries to convince the user into purchacing the product in order to fix all of those issues.
MacKeeper is aggressively marketed. It has been observed to be distributed through affiliates, potentially unwanted bundleware installers and download from “scareware” style popups that claims security issues were found on a user’s machine.
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ProTruckDriver · Nov 27, 2020

WoW! Unbelievable.

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