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Find/Remove suspected virus/malware on macbook air (mapi.sport80.com)
I've found a program running on a friend's Mac that is under the name "mapi.sport80.com" in screen time & it has been running consistently for 5 days straight, it looks to be accessing ...
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Self activating iMac after set standby mode
I set today my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) to standby and go shopping. After I come back after about 20 min., the Mac was active but the backgroundscreen was not the one I set to. It was a uni ...
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How can I be sure an email attached Word file with RSA certificate did not infect my MacBook?
I received an email from a plausible address with a Word file attached.
Stupidly, I downloaded and opened the Word file with Microsoft Word on OSX which looked like a RSA certificate file. It asked ...
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How to remove threat that antivirus program indicates has to be manually deleted?
I received the following alert from Bitdefender for Mac:
Threat requires removal
Feature: antivirus
We identified a threat that needs to manually deleted.
Threat name: Gen:Variant.Application....
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How can a USB drive cotaining video file be tested for malware?
I'm on a macBook Air running Mojave and I was given a USB drive containing video files (.mp4, .mkv, .avi) gotten using a torrent program.
I don't know the original location of the files, and need a ...
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How To Prevent Apps on macOS from Moving Themselves to the Applications Folder?
Some apps, like "Skype Meetings App" and "Join.me" surrepticiously copy themselves to your applications folder without asking or even so much as a notification.
How can this be prevented?
Isn't ...
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Avast on macOS High Sierra claims it has caught the Windows-Only “Cryptonight” virus
Yesterday I ran a full system scan using my Avast antivirus software and it found a infection file. The file's location is :
/private/var/db/uuidtext/7B/BC8EE8D09234D99DD8B85A99E46C64
Avast ...
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Got a PDF virus on my Mac, and Preview tried to view it: have I been infected?
Today I got some malware in my email: an empty mail with a PDF attachment. I tried saving the Pdf in order to upload it to virustotal.com and have it analyzed... but the problem is that, since I'm on ...
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Are there posibilities for someone to break into my computer other than having installed malware first? [closed]
Mostly interested about OS X, GNU/Linux. Assume a default configuration, not too weak, not too hardened.
Exclude downloads of malware or physical access to computer to install malware.
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Strange output from terminal `exit` command is this a virus?
I don't think that I have seen this before, but whenever I run exit in terminal I get a very strange output.
This is what it looks like:
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
......
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Strange TCP Connections - How to kill
My parents Mac is having some random issues - my mum paid £160 to get the computer repaired as there were some "trojans" according to the guy on the phone from india
On hearing this news I had a ...
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Can Windows Viruses/malwares infect mac osx if installed through Wine?
I am relatively new to OSX in general, I started using it two weeks only, the app Wineskin (a.k.a Wine in Linux environment) is used to run a Windows application inside osx by creating the correct ...
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How to know your Mac is not compromised (software and hardware) after lending [closed]
Is there a way to find out if your Mac has been compromised software and hardware wise?
I have a pre-unibody MacBook (2007), and it was in someone else's hands once.
I want to make sure:
the person ...
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Input Source Language keeps changing on Mac OS X 10.9.2 -- how to make the computer keep my desired setting?
First time posting on this site so hopefully I am posting it in the right place. Apologies if not. I've been having issues with my MacBook Pro (15-inch, mid 2009). I have my input source language set ...
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I started downloading MacKeeper, but can't quit the download — what should I do?
I saw MacKeeper on a link to download something and it said it would clean your computer for you. I started downloading it and halfway through I searched "Is MacKeeper a virus?" What I found told me ...
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