If more apps are found to be covertly gathering user data, however, this reputation could be at risk. Clean My Mac X is a Mac cleaner app to clean and optimize Mac. Macs have a reputation for having better security than Windows machines, mainly thanks to the Mac App Store, and Apple’s supposedly stringent rules for allowing apps to be included there. This revelation follows similar stories of Mac apps gathering data without permission, and could point to a worrying trend. The apps have now been removed from the Mac App Store, but if you have previously installed these apps, you should uninstall them straight away. These types of system 'cleaning' apps are very poorly written and are really a scam to rob newbieand novice Mac users of their hard earned cash for a poorly written maintenance program that will do much more harm to a perfectly normal running OS X system than the good that the app developers purport these types of apps will do.

What’s really worrying is that if these apps have access to the home directory they could potentially gather even more personal data without consent.

On using the app, found it had created a zip file which, when opened, contained browser history, Google search information, and a “file containing a complete list of all apps installed on the system, including information about where they were downloaded from, whether they are 64-bit compatible and their code signature”.Īt no point did the app ask permission or inform the user that it was collecting this data. Unarchiver, and confirmed that it was indeed collecting data from the home directory of the Mac it was installed on. Laptop showing the CCleaner interface - 1 billion downloads. To avoid losing any data during the macOS update process.

The website, which has reported on the issue, tried out one of the apps, Dr. CCleaner for Mac Clean up your Mac and keep your browsing behaviour private with CCleaner. Connect the external hard drive to the Mac, and run Time Machine to make a backup before the update.

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