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Trend Micro is spying on Mac users: stealing browsing history with Dr. Cleaner and Dr. Unarchiver

Apple withdrew some apps from the Mac App Store, because they were spying on their users by uploading a zip-file with the user’s browser history from Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox to their servers. The apps we are talking about are Dr. Cleaner and Dr. Unarchiver, popular apps made by Trend Micro Inc. These apps requested permission to access the user's Home folder and then uploaded their browsing history.

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