Q: I got a JS/Redirector .dg Trojan through firefox developer edition and Mcafee says it has been cleaned. What is it, and is it really completely gone?
Hi,
Could someone please help me with my query? It's a bit lengthy
I've got a MacBook Pro, my McAfee anti-virus recently discovered a JS/Redirector.dg Trojan which came through my Firefox Developer Edition. It says that it has been cleaned. I'm pretty sure it came through a series website that I use called Couchtuner2. I was opening a video player which forced popup windows to appear, which normally happens, so I closed them down as per usual, then about 40 seconds later I was alerted by my McAfee that it had found a threat in one of the Firefox folders and had cleaned it.
I ran a full system scan with McAfee, which found that everything was clean.
I ran another scan with Malwarebytes several times, which also found nothing.
This is my first macbook so I'm not really familiar with... well, anything mac related
Questions:
What is JS/Redirector.dg Trojan, and how dangerous is it?
I have found no information on the ".dg" variant of the JS/Redirector, have you heard about it?
Did McAfee really completely get rid of the JS/Redirector.dg Trojan threat?
If there was a threat would Malwarebytes discover it?
Could a threat be hidden somewhere?
Is my mac truly clean of this particular threat?
Should I uninstall my Firefox Developer Edition and reinstall it?
how do you do a complete application uninstall?
Thank you very much
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), null
Posted on Aug 30, 2016 3:12 AM