Top antivirus tool nuked from macOS App Store – after it phoned browser histories to China

Apple has removed an app called Adware Doctor:Anti Malware &Ad from the macOS App Store following claims it sent users’ browser histories to a remote server in China. The app’s misbehavior was first noted by a security researcher who goes by name Privacyis1st on Twitter and claims to have alerted Apple to the weirdness in early August.

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