Thread: One of Most Popular Mac Apps Is Spyware
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Old September 8th 18, 10:49 PM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default One of Most Popular Mac Apps Is Spyware
On 2018-09-08, azigni wrote:
On 9/7/18 11:21 PM, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
The researchers found that Adware Doctor collects data about its users, particularly browsing history and a list of other software and processes running on a machine, stores that data in a locked file, and periodically sends it out to a server that appears to be located in China.

https://www.wired.com/story/adware-doctor-mac-app-store-spyware/

Kind of hard to block sites users go to without knowing what those sites
are....


Why would you block it? Just remove the program!
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