Questions tagged [virus]
A virus is a malicious computer program that can duplicate itself and spread to other computers.
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Can a website on safari give you a virus?
I was browsing around on good ol' Sarari when all of a sudden, when I tapped on a website that I had successfully visited before, I was redirected to a site simply called Addware Detected !! On screen ...
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My iPad has a popup saying I have a virus
When I went to a website in Safari, it opened up another website with popups claiming my iPad has a virus.
I deleted some of my apps to try and get rid of the virus, but the popup keeps showing up ...
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Concerned I may have accidentally dropped malware (or something) onto my system
First time poster in this part of Stack Exchange - apologies I have posted in the wrong section.
In short I have an iMac running 10.8. Most of the time I quite happily get about my business but about ...
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Can someone help me evaluate if this is a scam for Mac support?
My father-in-law purchased a $400 lifetime support contract with a company (Cyber PC Experts).
Recently his computer has been acting up—running very slowly—so he requested support. The service tech ...
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Removing MySearchDial malware
My brother decided to install uTorrent on my iMac. In doing so, he accepted the installation of MySearchDial, a browser hijacker. I now have no idea how to remove it. Adding a new tab in Chrome will ...
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Virus from adult websites?
I go to my safari and it says I have viruses from adult websites, I'm guilty of that yes. But it then shows its checking my android in one tab and another says my iPhone has a virus. Is this true? Or ...
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Macbook Pro (mid 2010) shutting down upon boot up
Here is my question. My macbook pro has been acting crazy for a while, shutting down unexpectedly daily. Every once in a while it will work for a day or two but eventually will start shutting down ...
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How do u remove an iPad virus [closed]
I have an iPad Air 2 using netstat app. showed me I have compute-1.amazonaws.com running I googled it an it said its a virus. Does anyone no how to remove it I've cleared browser history, factory ...
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Is this a new virus or adware/malware signature? How do I resolve this?
Since the last 12 hours or so, I've been facing a virus that's somewhat peculiar. When I open websites, and click any link on those websites, I get a new pop-up tab that opens a link from ad.adsmatte....
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Why am I seeing these weird characters in the popup that asks for my password when I try to update Adobe Flash on my Mac?
I'm running OS X Yosemite on a Macbook Pro. I recently had an update for adobe flash but when the password prompt pops up to continue the installation of the update it looks like this:
What's going ...
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Why there is a constant voice notification on my Mac?
Every minute there is a woman's voice saying 'helo' (it doesn't sound like 'hello'…) coming from my MacBook (OS X 10.10).
It is freaking me out. I tried closing all my Apps and rebooting my Mac, but ...
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bepbmhgboaologfdajaanbcjmnhjmhfn.crx suspicious file in chrome (MAC)
When I open this chrome this file downloads automatically. I don't know what is it. But I think this is some malicious file. How fix it? An other get around it, other than just quickly resetting ...
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Trash folder is not emptying because of the P ͎̮͉͍ͨ̈́̾̈́A ͎̮͉͍ͨ̈́̾̈́I ͎̮͉͍ͨ̈́̾̈́N ͎̮͉͍ͨ̈́̾̈́.jpg file
When I cd ~/.Trash in the terminal, it shows that there is a folder Downloads, and inside the Downloads folder, another folder Reactions, and inside Reactions, there is a file called
Shutting down ...
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Is it possible for an iPad to get a virus?
I was using Safari on my iPad and suddenly a pop up message saying "your device has a virus" appeared. I just clicked okay because that was the only option and then it redirected me to youradexchange....
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Dropbox109 process asking to access firewall on Yosemite
As the title says, I have a process called Dropbox109 asking to access the internet. I have denied it.
I have Dropbox installed since Mavericks, and its been working fine (uploads/downloads/sync). ...
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Java Pop-Up Window
I keep getting a pop-up window that states "To view this content you must download Java Runtime Environment". I even got it while using Pages. Now supposedly one cannot get viruses on Macs (really?)....
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How can I guard myself from Wirelurker?
Just saw an article about the vicious malware that is Wirelurker. In short, Wirelurker can attack even non-jailbroken iOS devices, and has great potential to turn these wonderful iOS devices into dumb ...
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Strange network activity virus when Aiport is off / No Wi-Fi
So I have this strange issue on my aging MBP (pre-retina generation, running 10.8.5 (need this for Maya 2013 to run), where basically the network is always showing activity even when I am not ...
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Is my computer infected by the Recycler virus?
I installed Parallels Desktop for Mac and installed Windows 7. It seems like I loaded an infected file and now there are some $RECYCLER.bin folders around some places. Is this the Recycler virus? How ...
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Downloading unofficial applications with developer ID signature [closed]
Recently I have download a suite application from a torrent. The application installation was the "official" application installer plus a configuration file that was replaced the official ...
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Do I have a virus, a back door? Am I hacked?
Recently my MacBook has slowed down a lot, though I haven't downloaded any large files or installed new applications, I've mainly used the web.
Yesterday I was doing some work in Photoshop and ...
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How to recover a compromised Mac OS 10.8.5
Computer got Safari hijacked by the "police" virus. Temporary solved by using Firefox instead.
Questions:
Read on numerous forums that you could reinstall OS X by holding
down cmd + R keys. However,...
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Rogue calendar event
I have just had a mysterious thing happen: a calendar event has appeared out of nowhere.
At more or less the same time I received a similar email:
Now I am used to email spam, but how on earth has ...
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Found Virus Bloodhound.PDF.20 on the time machine external drive, how to remove
Just got a bran-new work-issued macbookpro loaded with Symantec endpoint protection (not by choice), it's less than 2 weeks old. Created backup using the time machine software, and endpoint kicks in ...
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Time Machine Backup causes Macbook Pro to hang
My Macbook Pro has suddenly started acting pretty funky. I will be running Blender for a few minutes and then it will turn on the fans and they will start getting faster and faster. I checked the CPU ...
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Why Is Mac Malware Less Frequent Than On Windows Systems? [closed]
Whenever I ask friends, colleagues and acquaintances why they have bought an Apple Mac and switched from Windows, nine times out of ten the response I receive is:
"Macs don't get viruses"
Is it true ...
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Random shutter sound
Every once in a while I hear a loud sound from my Mac. It sounds like either a camera shutter or a keychain lock/unlock. It all started a couple of weeks ago.
I fear something is snapping shots of my ...
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What is writing to Disk causing eventual Beach-ball-of-death
What is running my machine down? This is iotop output...I still can't tell what is driving my system to a halt. Command+i on the SSD shows my "used space" slowly changing. It does this for about an ...
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Strange unidentified sound playing at random intervals
I luckily managed to record the odd sound especially considering it plays at random.
Two weeks back it played about 4 times, one minute apart. Then there was nothing for a long time and now it has ...
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How can I determine if my MBP running Snow Leopard has been attacked by a virus?
5 yr old MBP Intel bought for video editing ran fine for 4 yrs, using Tiger & FCE 3.5. Past year has been stormy. Onset was unrecoverable crash dx'ed as not-worth-fixing logic board failure by ...
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Is it possible to download a virus via iPad safari browser?
I understand that PDF reader in iPad can be a security loophole for virus to get through; but beyond that, how easy ( or hard, or even possible ) is for a virus to sneak through iPad safari browser? ...
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Is antivirus software a necessity with the “rise” of MacDefender and others?
I have heard broadly about the so-called "rise" of the Mac viruses. Apparently, there is a "whole new deluge" of Mac viruses. So far, I have gotten nothing that I can see.
But I'm beginning to wonder ...
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Manually cleaning up a threat detected by Sophos Anti-virus?
I was viewing another answer on this website and one of the links lead me to a malicious website. I have Sophos Antivirus installed, and a warning immediately popped up telling me that a threat was ...
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Is it safer to use a guest account when streaming from projectfreetv?
Hi I stream my tv shows from projectfreetv on my mac, but I was concerned about downloading a virus or something, so I started using my ''guest account'' when I stream, because it says when I logout ...
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How do I tell if the Flash Player Installer is a virus?
There's been a couple of trojans recently that imitate the Adobe Flash Player installer one of which is called OSX/flashback.A. (More info here) I've been wary of updating Adobe Flash Player due to ...
