The Mac Defender Trojan Horse phishing scam was back in the news this week. Twice. First, a more virulent variation of the malware was detected. In this latest iteration, the phony program is named ...

In what has been up until now unchartered territory, Apple admitted that the recent onslaught of MacDefender malware is a threat to its Mac OS X platform and offered a temporary workaround to mitigate ...

Apple has announced that they will be releasing a software update to Mac OS X that will deal with the recent Mac Defender malicious software that has affected a number of Mac users. The Mac Defender ...

Recently, our own Harry McCracken revealed that even he’d been hit by the Mac malware known as Mac Defender (also known as Mac Protector). Here’s how to remove it from, or avoid getting it on, your ...

The old saw that Macs don't get viruses is under fire as a piece of malware called Mac Defender is rampaging across the Web. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, ...