Some background:
I do work in a university environment with faculty, staff, and lab Macs enrolled... So some things like BitTorrent are not allowed in labs, but are allowed in others areas for "legitimate reasons."
The message that the user receives varies by restriction and each message ends with a statement to contact our support center.
Here are some examples:
"MacKeeper is not a recommended way to clean or "speedup" your Mac. It can destabilize an otherwise stable Mac."
"A key logger was found to be running on this Mac. It has been shutdown."
"MacProtector is a fake antivirus program that is designed to scare people into thinking that their computers are infected. "
Abk (Keylogger)
BitTorrent
Black Hole
BPK (Keylogger)
CleanGenius (CrapApp)
CleanMyMac2 (CrapApp)
FontNuke
LimeWire
MacBooster (CrapApp)
MacBooster mini (CrapApp)
MacDefender (Virus)
MacDefender.app (Virus)
MacKeeper (CrapApp)
MacProtector.app (Virus)
MacScan (Virus)
MacSecurity.app (Virus)
OnyX
SearchProtect
uTorrent
Good list @damienbarrett and the feature request for the "Black List" template would be a good thing.
I just added a "new" shitware app to my list last night called "DetoxMyMac". It's very much like MacKeeper and tries to scare the end-user into installing their software to "clean" their Mac. It doesn't really do much and has an aggressive affiliate marketing program that causes idiot get-rick-quicksters to post links and fake reviews of Detox to blog articles and new stories.
I also had to start blocking "Popcorn-Time.app". At some point, they renamed it wit the hyphen.
@jedfry, you have a few in your list I hadn't heard of. Will be appending my list. Thanks.
@damienbarrett Is "Popcorn-Time.app" the actual process name? If not, can you provide the process name. Thanks! ;)
Hey @damienbarrett how do you export the Installed Applications report? Are you running a search right from Computers and just changing the search drop down to Applications? I don't see an export button.
Has anyone had success with blocking .jar files from launching via restricted software? I'm trying without much luck. I thought this used to work.
@CasperSally I'm not sure I have your answer, but how are you trying to block them?
If I don't have any of these installed on a device, how do I find the .app name so that I can delete the application instead of just killing a process. Many I block by killing a wildcard service - Mackeeper and clean but apparently the processes are constantly being closed, every two seconds. This is reeking havoc on our current deployment. Bold = asterisks.
2017-09-02 13:00:36,378 [INFO ] [Tomcat-51 ] [BlacklistNotification ] - The following blacklisted process was killed on device machinename (ID - 8435):
ID: 59
Process: clean
Owner: root
PID: 61529
PID: 4918
2017-09-02 13:57:58,131 [INFO ] [Tomcat-25 ] [BlacklistNotification ] - The following blacklisted process was killed on device machinename (ID - 4949):
ID: 41
Process: MacKeeper
Owner: root
PID: 18376
Bump, good point. What did you end up doing?
You could always install Malware Bytes for mac free and remove the MacKeeper, Genio etc.