Similar Photo Cleaner
The most prolific family of rogue Mac software continues to evolve, with a brand new pseudo optimizer iteration called Similar Photo Cleaner having been recently launched into the wild. The impostor app is making the rounds via a massive malvertising campaign and wreaking just about as much havoc as its forerunners Mac Auto Fixer, Mac Tonic and Advanced Mac Cleaner. Unlike the prototypes, though, it inherits the “tried-and-tested” feature set only partially, yet it appears to be persuasive enough to successfully brainwash users. The culprit pretends to find numerous duplicate and similar photos as well as other graphics files and constantly reminds the victim about the purportedly crammed up disk space and hence poor system health status by displaying recurrent scans and popup warnings.