![]() ![]() Among other things, the app creates a password-protected archive called history.zip that contains a user’s browsing history from Safari, Chrome and Firefox. However, Adware Doctor goes beyond what the user would expect or, indeed, want it to do. ![]() This alone isn’t unusual for security tools, as Wardle also notes, because “an anti-malware or anti- adware tool is going to need legitimate access to user’s files and directories – for example to scan them for malicious code.” When executed for the first time, the app asks the user for permission to access the system’s home directory and all sub-directories and files underneath it. Adware Doctor listing in Mac App Store (source: Patrick Wardle’s blog)
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