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Re: Xy4dbMac malware!



And I should have looked at the foot of my download page, which says this:

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Anti-virus false positives
If you have wasted your money on anti-virus software for your Mac, your anti-virus software will probably also waste your time by reporting that these applications contain malware. (Incompetent anti-virus software flags as malware anything created by the AutoIt scripting system, which both these applications use.) If you want to believe that the money you spent on anti-virus software was not in fact wasted, and that it correctly detected malware in these applications, then do not use these applications, and delete them immediately. Above all, please do not waste your extremely valuable time telling me that these applications were flagged as malware, and please do not waste your extremely valuable time asking me if they are safe. If you don't trust my software, don't use my software.
On a Mac, anti-virus software relies on its purchasers' magical 
thinking. If you want to use magical thinking to avoid macOS viruses, a 
method that costs much less, but is just as effective as anti-virus 
software, is to avoid stepping on the cracks in a paved sidewalk.

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