MacCleaner Scam

Hi,


Recently I have had intermittent popups and tabs opening claiming my mac is infected with viruses.


I know this is an old subject but I still cannot find a really useful way of ridding myself of this adware.


I always end up with a macCleaner.dmg in my download folder and I assume that nobody write viruses and malware to promote somebody else's software. I tried to contact MacCleaner at their published mail address but as expected my mail came back with invalid address. I would actually be prepared to put money on their heads because they are really the scum of the earth.


But back to the problem.


Most stuff I have found to rid one of this problem, such as malWareBytes just leads to the next scam where you will be expected to pay to rid yourself of what is an illegal scam. Basically sub-scammers.


Surely there must be a way of cleaning out the various plist, launch daemons these criminals install without paying these parasites to do it.


Can somebody help me?


TIA

-Paul-

ps. I really am prepared to rid the earth of these parasites and to make an example of them.



Posted on Sep 8, 2019 2:52 PM

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Sep 10, 2019 1:16 PM in response to John Galt

I have tried several adware cleaners including MalWareBytes and none of them seem to work.


I appreciate the advice here but surely there is a way of removing this adware stuff. I have now found out where macCleaner are hosted. It is a German company - Key-Systems in St.Ingbert. Why not in Germany? Well anywhere but where you really are. I will be taking legal action against them if they don't suspend the illegal activities. Fortunately we are based also in Germany so getting legal action is not too difficult and we are fluent. The German authorities are usually very keen to follow up on this type of scam. Also telephone scams are usually followed up on.


Any more advice appreciated.

-Paul-

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