Installation of software on Mac OSX requires the user to supply his administrative password. Any malicious software must therefore provide some kind of social engineering pretext to trick the user into entering that password. In this case however, the user is already prepared to enter the password in order to install the "free" software. Additionally, the installation does provide functional software as promised, giving the victim very little clue that his system has been compromised.

Mac Protection will be available through service providers, channel partners and F-Secure eStore by the end of Q3. F -Secure is yet to announce the price of the new version.