Author: Justin Pot / Source: How-To Geek
Popular applications from the Mac App Store were routinely downloading users’ web history, but Apple only took them down when security researchers went public.
Last week Adware Doctor was revealed to be grabbing users’ web history. Apple took that app down. Shortly after Thomas Reed, a longtime Mac security blogger who now works for Malwarebytes,, pointed out several more applications doing the same thing: Open Any Files, Dr. Antivirus and Dr. Cleaner. Malwarebytes reported Open Any Files to Apple in December of 2017, and nothing happened.
Until Reed’s post, that is. As of today all three apps have been removed from the US App Store. Here’s Reed…
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