This week, our friends at Trend blogged about a new misleading application for the Mac. We decided to take a look at it as well. The application, named iMunizator, is a variant of the well known rogue antivirus product called Macsweeper, which we have blogged about previously.
When launched, iMunizator performs a full scan of the system and soon after it reports the “problems” that it found. Worryingly, some of the files detected by iMunizator are actually safe system binaries that should never be removed—files with "app" extensions. See the screenshot below:
