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It quickly changed the name of the application to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/intego-discovers-new-variants-of-mac-defender-fake-antivirus\/\">MacSecurity (which we show in a video)<\/a>, and now has a new name: MacProtector.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Mac Security Fake Antivirus: MacGuard\/MacDefender\/MacShield - How It Works\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ceNRZ2kyuME?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The software is the same, and it&#8217;s being server from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/macdefender-macsecurity-malware-gets-a-bit-more-sophisticated\/\">web page that looks like a Mac OS X Finder window<\/a>. 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