On May 24, Apple posted a support forum entry on how to avoid or remove the MacDefender malware that's been plaguing an unknown number of users since early May. And I'm glad they did. But the support forum is way overdue, and Apple's standard method of responding to user issues--ignore them until they won't go away and then issue a response when the outcry gets too loud--simply won't fly where user security is at stake.
Mac users are a juicy, unprotected target for hackers, phishers, and scammers, and Apple needs to drop the impenetrable fortress act and help them raise the drawbridge.

MacDefender and its malicious software variants have been landing on Macs since at least May 2, when Intego and Sophos first reported on a massive SEO poisoning scheme that had Windows and Mac users alike clicking on malicious links and becoming infected with a Trojan program.

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