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Re:MacKeeper 0-day flaw more than 20M users affected by anonfunction on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @06:56AM (#9538017)
The person who found the 0-day set up a website that exploits the flaw by uninstalling MacKeeper.

Mr. Thomas released a proof-of-concept (POC) demonstrating how visiting a specially crafted webpage in Safari causes the affected system to execute arbitrary commands – in this case, to uninstall MacKeeper.

Source: http://securemac.com/MacKeeper_Security_Advisory_Revised.php

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Re:MacKeeper 0-day flaw more than 20M users affected by themartorana on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @07:08AM (#9538070)
Proof of concept and solution, sounds like.
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