Google Earth's Mac updater isn't malware, but deserved your suspicions

Macworld
Sep 12, 2016, 5:00 am427 pts
Let me shake your hand if you’re one of the people who, when seeing a pop-up dialog appear on your Mac a while back that asked you to enter your account password for Google Earth Update Helper, said, “Whoa! This is obviously malware!” It wasn’t, but you deserve kudos for being suspicious. Er, and I entered my…

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