This may be a concern to people, but rest assured these are just scams to try to coerce you into installing malware and are nothing new. It will start listing files that are not on your system as the fake scan completes itself, and will display some statistics about the number of threats found. The malware is made available for download through a Web page that is entitled "Apple security center" and appears to be running a virus scan on the system. In a growing thread on the Apple Support Communities forum, commenters are describing the new attack attempt, in which an individual or small group (judging by IP addresses) is releasing Mac-focused malware to OS X users via e-mail and Web links. The 'Apple Security Center' malware appears to be a legitimate scanner, but runs in a Web browser (click for larger view). Recently some rather sophisticated Trojan horse scam software called MacDefender was discovered for OS X, and a similar attempt has surfaced with a Web-based malware-detection facade that tries to get you to download and install malware on your system. If you ever see a message or window in Safari or your e-mail client about your system's security being compromised, ignore it! Malware developers and scammers are increasingly focusing on OS X and working to trick Mac users with highly developed Trojan horse attempts, using both software and ominous-looking messages generated in Web browsers and e-mail clients.
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