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Les Streater All Messages By This Member #20735 开云体育 This morning I was doing sone research and a regular website I clicked on – not an adult one! – immediately gave me a warning my system was infected! I immediately closed Safari, then reopened and checked preferences and extensions, with nothing odd showing up. I then ran DetectX and Malware bites, neither showed anything. I then started getting a warning top right that my icloud account was being hacked, with a Trojan B... number listed, so I closed the machine down entirely and disconnected the wifi. After a few minutes I restarted, ran DetectX and Malware again both of which showed up clean. But I am still getting the icloud warning occasionally. I am on a 2015 macbook pro, running 10.13.6 and am usually very careful how I use the internet. Any ideas what else I can look for or do to stop these notifications?
Randy B. Singer All Messages By This Member #20736 On Nov 24, 2024, at 7:05 AM, Les Streater via groups.io <les.streater@...> wrote: Any ideas what else I can look for or do to stop these notifications? I can almost guaranty you that you aren’t infected with anything. Since there is no malware actually on your computer, any anti-virus software that you run won’t find anything. It's likely adware in the form of a notification that you were tricked into agreeing to. You visited a Web site, and clicked on a window that asked if you wanted notifications from that Web site. Of many you just hit Return to get rid of a pop-up while on the site. Here is how to deal with it. While in Safari, open Preferences in the Safari menu. Click on Websites. Click on Notifications in the column on the left. Delete all notifications that you don't recognize. Still in Safari Preferences, click on Privacy. Then Click on "Manage Website Data". Click on "Remove All". (The offender may be called "scan-mypc.xyz".) Still in Safari Preferences, click on Extensions. Uninstall any Extensions that you aren't 100% sure that you installed on purpose. It wouldn't hurt to close Safari and restart your Mac after doing all of the above. See: __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
Les Streater All Messages By This Member #20747 开云体育 Thanks! I'd remembered steps 1 and 3, it was step 2 that seemed to break the link As always, much appreciated for all your advice and help toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> Sent: 24 November 2024 15:42 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [macsupportcentral] icloud hacking ? > On Nov 24, 2024, at 7:05 AM, Les Streater via groups.io <les.streater@...> wrote: > > Any ideas what else I can look for or do to stop these notifications? I can almost guaranty you that you aren’t infected with anything.? Since there is no malware actually on your computer, any anti-virus software that you run won’t find anything. It's likely adware in the form of a notification that you were tricked into agreeing to.? You visited a Web site, and clicked on a window that asked if you wanted notifications from that Web site.? Of many you just hit Return to get rid of a pop-up while on the site. Here is how to deal with it. While in Safari, open Preferences in the Safari menu. Click on Websites.? Click on Notifications in the column on the left.? Delete all notifications that you don't recognize. Still in Safari Preferences, click on Privacy. Then Click on "Manage Website Data". Click on "Remove All". (The offender may be called "scan-mypc.xyz".) Still in Safari Preferences,? click on Extensions.? Uninstall any Extensions that you aren't 100% sure that you installed on purpose. It wouldn't hurt to close Safari and restart your Mac after doing all of the above. See: __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________

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