Mac应用商店的热门应用程序经常下载用户的网络历史记录，但苹果只是在安全研究人员公开时才将其下载下来。

上周，广告医生被揭露正在抓取用户的网络历史。苹果把那个应用程序取了下来。不久前，长期从事Mac安全博客工作的Thomas Reed指出，还有几个应用程序也在做同样的事情：打开任何文件，Dr.Antivirus和Dr.Cleaner。Malwarebytes在2017年12月向苹果报告了任何打开的文件，但什么都没有发生。

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直到里德的职位。截至今天，这三款应用程序都已从美国应用商店中删除。这是里德写给Malwarebytes的：

It’s blindingly obvious at this point that the Mac App Store is not the safe haven of reputable software that Apple wants it to be. I’ve been saying this for several years now, as we’ve been detecting junk software in the App Store for almost as long as I’ve been at Malwarebytes. This is not new information, but these issues reveal a depth to the problem that most people are unaware of.

We’ve reported software like this to Apple for years, via a variety of channels, and there is rarely any immediate effect. In some cases, we’ve seen offending apps removed quickly, although sometimes those same apps have come back quickly (as was the case with Adware Doctor). In other cases, it has taken as long as six months for a reported app to be removed.

显然，删除应用程序的唯一方法就是写一篇关于这个问题的公开博客文章。这可能不是苹果想要开创的先例。