"We have completed the removal of browser collection features across our consumer products in question. "We apologize to our community for concern they might have felt and can reassure all that their data is safe and at no point was compromised," Trend Micro said. However, the company again downplayed the significance of its users' privacy breach by saying that the apps "collected and uploaded a small snapshot of the browser history on a one-time basis, covering the 24 hours prior to installation." Antivirus collected users' system information and browsing history data from popular web browsers including Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, and then sent them to. The researcher has also published a video demonstration showing how Dr. Trend Micro Apps Caught Stealing Users' Data Privacy_1st is the same researcher who also discovered and reported about the suspicious spyware-like behavior of Adware Doctor. The suspicious behavior of Trend Micro apps was initially reported by a user on the Malwarebytes forum in December 2017, which was last weekend re-confirmed by security researcher Privacy_1st on Twitter, who then notified the issue to Apple. "This was a one-time data collection, done for security purposes (to analyze whether a user had recently encountered adware or other threats, and thus to improve the product & service)," Trend Micro argued. The apps were removed just two days after Apple kicked out another popular "Adware Doctor" application for collecting and sending browser history data from users' Safari, Chrome, and Firefox to a server in China. Battery, and Duplicate Finder for Mac computers. The controversial apps in question include Dr Cleaner, Dr Cleaner Pro, Dr Antivirus, Dr Unarchiver, App Uninstall, Dr. Apple has removed almost all popular security apps offered by well-known cyber-security vendor Trend Micro from its official Mac App Store after they were caught stealing users' sensitive data without their consent.
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