How to avoid Mac malware by using Gatekeeper and common sense

The best weapon against Mac malware is your mind: recognizing the key aspects of illegitimate software, and configuring your Mac correctly, go a long way toward avoiding a takeover. We’ve seen two new examples of OS X malware in the last week—Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor and OSX/Keydnap, both of which are blocked from executing unless a Mac’s settings are too liberal. The ability to set a Mac to be vulnerable is about to change for the better in macOS Sierra, too....
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