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Downloading Free Sophos

crookey

This may be a dumb comment and/or question, but . . . I finally decided I needed to look into anti virus protection for my macbook pro because I was worried I fell for a scam of give-away ipads. I went to sophos.com and actually did hit the free download for mac, but what came up was something called Mackeeper. It seemed strange, but I couldn't figure out what happened or how. I went ahead and ran the scan program, and it detected (of course) TONS of issues. Meantime, I went on a live chat to figure this out, and the person on the chat said it was not free, but cost $39.95 for the basic program. I then asked how to forget it and remove it. He told me how, and from what I see it is gone now. THEN, I went back to sophos.com and tried again. This time it worked fine, running the scan took a long time, and it said there was nothing wrong at all. ?? Am I wrong in being worried about this whole thing?

Also, I downloaded version 8.0.1C. I am not even sure I downloaded the right program. Did I? Any thought are appreciated.

Thanks,

Crookey

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    One thing to note is that there is a "Mac Keeper" product that advertises heavily just about everywhere (search for SAV Mac HE on Google and you'll likely get a paid Mac Keeper result at the top of the page), and there is ALSO a Fake Antivirus product produced last year (the command and control sites have since been taken down) that sometimes goes by the name Mac Keeper.

    If the alerts you got look like this: Fake Mac Keeper then it's the fake one.  If the window graphic looks like this: Real Mac Keeper then it's the commercial product.  Neither of them are SAV Mac HE.

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    One thing to note is that there is a "Mac Keeper" product that advertises heavily just about everywhere (search for SAV Mac HE on Google and you'll likely get a paid Mac Keeper result at the top of the page), and there is ALSO a Fake Antivirus product produced last year (the command and control sites have since been taken down) that sometimes goes by the name Mac Keeper.

    If the alerts you got look like this: Fake Mac Keeper then it's the fake one.  If the window graphic looks like this: Real Mac Keeper then it's the commercial product.  Neither of them are SAV Mac HE.

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