![]() ![]() What use is a backup that’s days old? Every additional computer to be backed up or sync’ed also incurred another monthly fee. Every reputable service offers instantaneous backups of your files even with the introductory or free plans. Instantaneous backups? Yup, that’s a monthly upsell too. My guess is support would blame your internet connection after taking the extra money. You would essentially be paying extra to remove an artificial limit placed on your account by Zip Cloud and still be waiting days for your backup to complete. For the most part, upload speed is abysmal in the US. The speed of your backup is determined by the the upload speed of your internet connection. So $4.95/mo becomes $60 if you’re not careful, more on this later.įirst off, you can pay quite a bit extra per month for “unlimited upload speed”. ![]() The red flag was they tried to squeeze you into yearly billing. Zip Cloud offers “unlimited backup” space for $4.95/mo which sounds great until you actually sign up. I pay $10/mo for 50GB of space and unlimited computers. I personally use Dropbox, which isn’t truly an online backup service in the traditional sense but serves my purposes well. There are lots of services out there that specialize in online backup. Pretty novel concept, eh? I’ve been using online backup with Dropbox for quite a few years now. If your computer ever crashes you simply download all your files onto a new computer. It’s an online backup service which basically takes a copy of all your files and places them online. Although this should not affect your data, it would nonetheless be wise to back up your computer before starting this process, just in case something goes wrong.At the prodding of a buddy of mine over the winter I signed up for an online backup service called Zip Cloud. It should not be necessary to erase your hard drive, simply reinstall on top of your existing system. This will overwrite Safari and its support files with fresh copies. Victims of this malicious installer should immediately remove both MacKeeper and ZipCloud, of course, but should also reinstall OS X. I was immediately suspicious that malicious changes might have been made to this copy of Safari, but I have not found any evidence of that. Nonetheless, even if I were able to run this copy of Safari, I would not choose to do so. This, of course, had the effect of completely breaking Safari on my 10.9.5 system, as the newer version (8.0.6) cannot run on that version of OS X. Most interestingly, however was the fact that this app also installed a newer version of Safari and a number of Safari's support files! Both browsers had their home pages and search engines set to a Yahoo "Search BOSS" page, which is how Yahoo is tricked into paying the scammers for promoting it. The usual Set Search Settings extension for Firefox, which I have observed multiple times with InstallCore, was also incorrectly installed, as always.Īlthough no browser extensions were successfully installed, both Chrome and Firefox had their preferences modified. Interestingly, the typical InstallCore Safari extension was for some reason not installed. I chose to accept all of these, of course.Īs a result, both MacKeeper and ZipCloud were installed and opened automatically. Next was acceptance of the installation of MacKeeper, though the text was relatively small and uniform, and the familiar MacKeeper logo was nowhere to be seen.įinally, I had to accept the installation of ZipCloud. ![]() I was greeted with the familiar InstallCore installer interface, except that the first page of the installer read "Welcome to Safari."Ĭontinuing with the installation resulted in being asked to accept the "Search-Assist" extension for Safari, with a big Yahoo! logo at the top of the window. The installer on that disk image did not look like an Apple installer at all, but nonetheless, I opened it anyway. (I was using OS X 10.9.5, so this actually was true.)Ĭlicking the Update Now button downloaded a disk image file named "Apple Safari Setup.dmg". When I attempted to view one of the supposed streams, it redirected me to a page that claimed that Safari was outdated. This new installer was obtained while visiting one of the "First Row Sports" scam sports streaming sites. Last week, we discovered a new version of the InstallCore installer that displays an unpleasant new trick: it pretends to be a Safari update! ![]()
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