Apple, the company widely regarded as untouchable and untouched by the virus or malware that you prefer, these days are running for cover to retract an alleged threat by the time you announce a limited effect, but if it was taken lightly, could be a Herculean task, involving all the products of Cupertino home PC.
A few days ago we warned users of Apple from being strange and unusual requests for download today has that same warning and advise to be cautious when selecting the updates and programs to install. The key thing, recommended by Apple, is to carefully check the provenance of these files, which could contain the infection are able to penetrate deeply into the system so far unsullied, but under fire in the current state of things, the crackers and hackers trying to blow attracting valuable information to users in the network updates defined fake, or spoofed.
The best way to avoid such problems is not to make upgrades in direct order is being proposed by the program, but to go on the official website and download the updated version from the original source, avoiding unnecessary risk and possibly a considerable expense derived technicians who will put his hand to a system as complex as the various iMac or MacBook.
The best thing to do at the moment and follow these simple tips, but unfortunately if your PC is already infested with pop-up windows that open and several repeat, it's time to bring the terminal in service or to perform a full format , re-establishing the basic configuration of the model as soon as it left our facilities.
This does not mean that the data in your PC may already have been violated, you have no such statements by any official source, which shows that uncertainty about developments of the case scenarios that assume more and more worrisome. The software is indicted MacDefender just the malware protection system of the Colossus of Cupertino, during an upgrade, tell how badly the captain, the program restart the computer began to be more effective against that annoying pop up ads begin in a progressive manner to fill the desktop, to make the machine unworkable in some cases.
This is a classic problem on typical Windows-based PCs, which is easily solved with a thorough scan of your PC, in this case can not be executed because the malicious software is precisely that of security, as anticipated, or the alternative is a full format of the machine, this hypothesis to be taken with pliers for non-computer experts, as a procedure performed without proper care could cause irreversible damage to the PC.
As in most cases where you run into problems from the consequences of a certain severity, should consult an expert or better yet, a specialized service center similar to the manufacturer of your PC, in this case Apple. Groped will not gamble in the long term to no good, because you take confidence in his abilities after a successful attempt, while not fully aware of its own staff, this harms future interventions that may be needed, many we do not have the solution to not having the right skills to deal with, so pay attention to everything that you decide to do, are upgrades from unsafe sources and changes to the setup in areas that do not compete to the user, this advice is essential to terminals under warranty, because in some cases this may fail for reasons that go beyond manufacturing defects. 
A few days ago we warned users of Apple from being strange and unusual requests for download today has that same warning and advise to be cautious when selecting the updates and programs to install. The key thing, recommended by Apple, is to carefully check the provenance of these files, which could contain the infection are able to penetrate deeply into the system so far unsullied, but under fire in the current state of things, the crackers and hackers trying to blow attracting valuable information to users in the network updates defined fake, or spoofed.
The best way to avoid such problems is not to make upgrades in direct order is being proposed by the program, but to go on the official website and download the updated version from the original source, avoiding unnecessary risk and possibly a considerable expense derived technicians who will put his hand to a system as complex as the various iMac or MacBook.
The best thing to do at the moment and follow these simple tips, but unfortunately if your PC is already infested with pop-up windows that open and several repeat, it's time to bring the terminal in service or to perform a full format , re-establishing the basic configuration of the model as soon as it left our facilities.
This does not mean that the data in your PC may already have been violated, you have no such statements by any official source, which shows that uncertainty about developments of the case scenarios that assume more and more worrisome. The software is indicted MacDefender just the malware protection system of the Colossus of Cupertino, during an upgrade, tell how badly the captain, the program restart the computer began to be more effective against that annoying pop up ads begin in a progressive manner to fill the desktop, to make the machine unworkable in some cases.
This is a classic problem on typical Windows-based PCs, which is easily solved with a thorough scan of your PC, in this case can not be executed because the malicious software is precisely that of security, as anticipated, or the alternative is a full format of the machine, this hypothesis to be taken with pliers for non-computer experts, as a procedure performed without proper care could cause irreversible damage to the PC.
As in most cases where you run into problems from the consequences of a certain severity, should consult an expert or better yet, a specialized service center similar to the manufacturer of your PC, in this case Apple. Groped will not gamble in the long term to no good, because you take confidence in his abilities after a successful attempt, while not fully aware of its own staff, this harms future interventions that may be needed, many we do not have the solution to not having the right skills to deal with, so pay attention to everything that you decide to do, are upgrades from unsafe sources and changes to the setup in areas that do not compete to the user, this advice is essential to terminals under warranty, because in some cases this may fail for reasons that go beyond manufacturing defects.
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