The Xfinity TV app is available now for free in the App Store, but it won’t do much if you’re not a Comcast cable subscriber or don’t have one of the compatible set-top boxes. Am I living in a dream world folks? Xfinity just enticed me to sign a 1 year internet contract with a free basic TV plan. Because it’s not my 1st rodeo with Xfinity, I specifically asked if their app was available on Apple TV and they said yes. They also said the app would appear the next morning so don’t be alarmed if I don’t see it. I am not worrying because I can revert out of the contract during the 30 grace period. Just saved $10 per month on internet and received basic cable without switching carriers or decreasing my internet speed. It’s a wonderful Christmas unless they were lying about the app. Great question and I just researched this myself. Xfinity does not yet have a native app for AppleTV (that I know of). They are currently in beta on Roku devices.but who wants to use those. While I bet there will be an Xfinity app available at some point (perhaps even later this year) I just went through a conversion so I could run ALL TV on my AppleTV.and it's awesome. I ended up going with Playstation Vue for TV (also tested Hulu live TV) as it seems to be the most powerful and allows concurrent streams. Just updated my Xfinity account to internet only (and increased the speed in the process). Now, it's a great experience on every TV in the house. Each Apple TV has Playstation Vue (for TV), Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and HBO Go. Easy enough to add more or less apps as needed/wanted. Since AppleTV only costs once for the hardware, there is limitless expansion. I have them installed on everything from a 39' LCD guest room TV, to an OLED, to a 120' 4k projector in our media room. Loving the new solution. Apple Footer • This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the. A popular top-tier app in Mac App Store was found pilfering browser histories from anyone who downloads it. Yet still, at the time of writing, the rogue app — Adware Doctor — stands as the No.1 grossing paid app in the app store’s utilities categories. But Apple was warned weeks ago and did nothing to pull the app offline. Now it seems Apple has. Apple would not comment on the record. Apple’s walled garden approach to Mac and iPhone security is almost entirely based on the inability to install apps outside the app store, which Apple monitors closely. While it’s not uncommon to hear of, it’s nearly unheard of for Apple to face the same fate. Any app that doesn’t meet the and will be rejected, and users won’t able to install it. This app promises to “keep your Mac safe” and “get rid of annoying pop-up ads” — and even “discover and remove threats on your Mac.” But what the app won’t tell you is that for just a few bucks it’ll steal and download your browser history — including all the sites you’ve searched for or accessed — to servers in China run by the app’s makers. ![]() Thanks in part to on YouTube and with help from security firm Malwarebytes, it’s now clear what the app is up to. Security researcher Patrick Wardle, a former NSA hacker and now chief research officer at, dug in and with TechCrunch. Wardle found that the downloaded app jumped through hoops to bypass Apple’s Mac sandboxing features, which prevents apps from grabbing data on the hard drive, and upload a user’s browser history on Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers. Wardle found that the app, thanks to Apple’s own flawed vetting, could request access to the user’s home directory and its files. That isn’t out of the ordinary, Wardle says, because tools that market themselves as anti-malware or anti-adware expect access to the user’s files to scan for problems. When a user allows that access, the app can detect and clean adware — but if found to be malicious, it can “collect and exfiltrate any user file,” said Wardle. With the recent KeRanger attacks focused on OS X, we explain exactly what malware and ransomware are and answer an age old question - do Macs need antivirus. Anti-virus programs don't just provide protection against known viruses; they also include anti-phishing, anti-adware, anti-spyware, anti-ransomeware and other tools that can keep your Mac from picking up debris as you browse the web, open email attachments, or download apps, extensions, and other items that could be bearers of malware. Do you need antivirus for mac. Last week, in my Norton AntiVirus Begone! Entry, I offered instructions for removing Norton AntiVirus from a Mac. That entry appeared in this week’s Macworld Weekly Newsletter and prompted a. If you never connect your Mac to the Internet, the answer is no. But if you do use the Internet, the answer is yes. And since most everyone is online these days, that means that the majority of Mac users need to consider installing Macintosh compatible antivirus software. Do Macs get viruses? Do Macs need antivirus software? The answer isn't as simple as it may seem. In this article, we look at the dangers faced by Mac users and the pros and cons of using Mac. Once the data is collected, it’s zipped into an archive file and sent to a domain based in China. Wardle said that for some reason in the last few days the China-based domain went offline. At the time of writing, TechCrunch confirmed that the domain wouldn’t resolve — in other words, it was still down. “Let’s face it, your browsing history provides a glimpse into almost every aspect of your life,” said Wardle’s post. “And people have even been convicted based largely on their internet searches!” He said that the app’s access to such data “is clearly based on deceiving the user.” Apple was contacted weeks ago.
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