Instead, Apple focused this time on new apps for OS X. Most of the other core apps haven’t changed much, and Messages and Mail are more basically the same apps as ever. Apple’s redesigned apps should have received redesigned icons, and the result leaves things feelings slightly old-fashioned. As much as people disliked iOS’ new icons, there’s a certain cohesiveness about having all the styles match up. The Notes icon is still a yellow legal pad, which looks odd against the improved design. Notes has also lost its skeuomorphism, replacing the fake yellow-lined paper with a subtly-patterned off-white sheet - though it’s still just an ultra-simple app that syncs with your iPhone.īut for all the design changes, Apple forgot about the icons. Contacts now looks more like an email client, with a column of names on the left and detailed information in a larger window on the right - a big improvement over past versions’ book-like design, complete with fake binding stitching. Although this should not affect your data, it would nonetheless be wise to back up your computer before starting this process, just in case something goes wrong.Contacts and Notes also received much-needed facelifts, but little more. It should not be necessary to erase your hard drive, simply reinstall on top of your existing system. This will overwrite Safari and its support files with fresh copies. Victims of this malicious installer should immediately remove both MacKeeper and ZipCloud, of course, but should also reinstall OS X. I was immediately suspicious that malicious changes might have been made to this copy of Safari, but I have not found any evidence of that. Nonetheless, even if I were able to run this copy of Safari, I would not choose to do so. This, of course, had the effect of completely breaking Safari on my 10.9.5 system, as the newer version (8.0.6) cannot run on that version of OS X. Most interestingly, however was the fact that this app also installed a newer version of Safari and a number of Safari’s support files! Both browsers had their home pages and search engines set to a Yahoo “Search BOSS” page, which is how Yahoo is tricked into paying the scammers for promoting it. The usual Set Search Settings extension for Firefox, which I have observed multiple times with InstallCore, was also incorrectly installed, as always.Īlthough no browser extensions were successfully installed, both Chrome and Firefox had their preferences modified. Interestingly, the typical InstallCore Safari extension was for some reason not installed. I chose to accept all of these, of course.Īs a result, both MacKeeper and ZipCloud were installed and opened automatically. Next was acceptance of the installation of MacKeeper, though the text was relatively small and uniform, and the familiar MacKeeper logo was nowhere to be seen.įinally, I had to accept the installation of ZipCloud. I was greeted with the familiar InstallCore installer interface, except that the first page of the installer read “Welcome to Safari.”Ĭontinuing with the installation resulted in being asked to accept the “Search-Assist” extension for Safari, with a big Yahoo! logo at the top of the window. The installer on that disk image did not look like an Apple installer at all, but nonetheless, I opened it anyway.
MALWAREBYTES FOR MAC OS X 10.9.5 UPDATE
(I was using OS X 10.9.5, so this actually was true.)Ĭlicking the Update Now button downloaded a disk image file named “Apple Safari Setup.dmg”. When I attempted to view one of the supposed streams, it redirected me to a page that claimed that Safari was outdated. This new installer was obtained while visiting one of the “First Row Sports” scam sports streaming sites. Last week, we discovered a new version of the InstallCore installer that displays an unpleasant new trick: it pretends to be a Safari update!
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