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I received a pop-up indicating Trojan viruses have been detected on my computer.

I received a pop-up (supposedly from Apple) indicating that several Trojan viruses have been detected on my computer. Is this for real? If so, what do I do about it? Or....was this a phishing email?


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iMac 21.5", OS X 10.11

Posted on Jul 23, 2019 10:15 AM

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Jul 23, 2019 11:37 AM in response to allegra0109

You may  have adware/malware installed. Try downloading this program which was written by Thomas R, a long time poster. The program will search for malware/adware. The program will do the work for you which makes it easy. It may be necessary to run more than one scan. After running the scans, restart the computer.


Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac      10.10 and later


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I received a pop-up indicating Trojan viruses have been detected on my computer.

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