tuneupmymac nightmare!

What to do if you install tuneupmymac and how to uninstall it?

OK so I was on download.com today and a piece of software decided to download itself to my downloads folder.  The programme was automatically  downloaded as a little extra piece of software from my original programme I downloaded.  The program was called “tuneupmymac”.  This programme is another one of those call called pieces of software that will “fix” your mac mac it go faster etc etc.  Well thats what is says on the tin, so it must be true? Mustn’t it?

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Virus software


I am afraid gone are the days when Macs seemed to be impervious to virus. In the past 4 months I have seen a influx of malware, adware and spyware virus’s which have compromised a number of client machines both business and home users. People have been drawn into installing software programs such as Mackeeper to help improve the performance of their machine and identify “problems” within the machine before it affects the work flow of the end user. The really annoying thing about these programs is the easy that they are available while surfing the net. Continue reading “Virus software”