{"id":2768,"date":"2011-05-18T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2026-07-01T04:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:14:25","slug":"applecare-overwhelmed-by-calls-about-fake-antivirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/applecare-overwhelmed-by-calls-about-fake-antivirus\/","title":{"rendered":"AppleCare Overwhelmed by Calls About Fake Antivirus"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the MacDefender, MacSecurity and MacProtector fake antivirus<\/a> spreading through poisoned Google images searches, more and more Mac users are getting stung by this scam. Ed Bott on ZDNet spoke to an AppleCare representative<\/a> who explained just how widespread this is. He says, “Our call volume here at AppleCare is 4-5x higher than normal and [the overwhelming majority] of our calls are about this Mac Defender and its aliases.” <\/p>\n

Our information at Intego is similar. We are contacted by a huge number of customers who are worried about this fake antivirus, and have dozens of samples, including a number of variants of the scareware. <\/p>\n


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Apple’s support center is getting a huge number of phone calls about the fake antivirus that is currently targeting Mac users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[2725,54,86],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-malware","tag-applecare","tag-fake-antivirus","tag-mac-malware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t