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Q: Genieo Virus

I was hit with a Genieo virus application that somehow got onto my Mac OS X 10.9.8 (MBP)

and installed itself into my login startup list.

 

This virus (we have to call it that as I did not ask for nor authorize it) must have been attached to

something else, though I am unsure how they did this.

 

When I tried to uninstall the program Genieo it ask me to install Java-6 to do it.

That was a BIG mistake because everything crash in my Mac.

 

So tomorrow I have an appointment in the Genius Bar, to check my computer.

My listing here is done for two reasons:

(1) to document that genio is

sending out virus (look up who to complain)

and (2) to ask the community for guidance in protecting

my Mac from further Genio (and other similar) intrusions.

 

However, any comments would be very appreciated.

 

Regards

iMac G5 with Mac OS X version 10.5.3, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Nov 12, 2013 3:33 PM

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  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Apr 28, 2014 12:49 PM in response to Elizau
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    Apr 28, 2014 12:49 PM in response to Elizau

    I don't want to reread the whole thread, but as mad said, you did not completely find follow the instructions to remove genieo.

    One thing you must do now first is removing omnibar and then do the remove genieo sequence again.

  • by Elizau ,

    Elizau Elizau Apr 28, 2014 2:12 PM in response to Lexiepex
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    Apr 28, 2014 2:12 PM in response to Lexiepex

    Got it! Thanks for all your help

  • by capnb00b00,

    capnb00b00 capnb00b00 Jul 3, 2014 10:47 PM in response to Kappy
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    Jul 3, 2014 10:47 PM in response to Kappy

    whats funny is people here advising others to go try Dr.Web light to solve this problem, which is a bit WORSE then genieo when it comes to actually damaging your hard drive, it has a memory bug or should i say uses so much memory to share whats on your drive via backdoors, it goes straight to the ROOT.

     

    Look at the screen shot, drwebd, user= root, using almost 1GB of real ram 20 x until your computer slows down to a crawl, if you force quit the processes nothing happens., only pulling the plug to the INTERNET stops these processes, i mean literally pulling the plug on the router, you cant even shut wifi off, i tried and it took 8 minutes just to see the menu and by the time it did it was gone in a sec.

    Screen Shot 2014-07-03 at 7.52.14 PM.png

    Genieo whatever its called is a Israeli company, this  is a news app reporting news, whether the news is from the media or about you is another question,  my point has nothing to do with Israel, Google and other companies also do the same thing and have been for ages, They claim its customer research.

  • by MadMacs0,

    MadMacs0 MadMacs0 Jul 4, 2014 1:21 AM in response to capnb00b00
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    Jul 4, 2014 1:21 AM in response to capnb00b00

    capnb00b00 wrote:

     

    whats funny is people here advising others to go try Dr.Web light to solve this problem

    I'll let Kappy respond to this, if he's even monitoring the discussion any more, except to note that his first response was a general recommendation concerning malware. Once he realized the topic was Genieo, he changed his recommendations.

     

    I'm not sure why you insist on discussion the problem you found in the forums you selected as it has nothing at all to do with Genieo or even Mavericks. It's a problem that deserves a detailed discussion with a slightly different audience, so I'd encourage you to start a new discussion outlining your findings and we can go over them there. Feel free to post a link to the new topic back here.

  • by Mac10101010,

    Mac10101010 Mac10101010 Dec 4, 2014 4:37 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Dec 4, 2014 4:37 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Everytime I shut down my iMac, its show a box saying that it is installing something(no name). It has two buttons, abort and "i forgot". And since I am turning of my mac, i cant press the button.....

    I am worry that it is like sth running in the background.

    And I...installed an Appware genieo before. I saw a suspicious folder came up in the application folder. I just trash it right away... I didn't know that there are removal tool at that time. And then I found out that my browser changed to an ad website.... So I changed it back to normal website... Is the installing sth msg box is related to Genieo??

     

     

    Thanks a million for your help!

  • by Powmari1,

    Powmari1 Powmari1 Jan 1, 2015 9:52 AM in response to Mac10101010
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    Mac OS X
    Jan 1, 2015 9:52 AM in response to Mac10101010

    I had the same problem, same popup on shutting down, after updating software on a brand new iMac . I had expert advice that suggested I download AdwareMedic (http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php) and it solved the problem. You might try it.

  • by dodifaze,

    dodifaze dodifaze Jun 2, 2015 6:31 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jun 2, 2015 6:31 AM in response to Linc Davis

    thanks for helpfuul info.

    Jozef.

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