"ApplicationEvents," "StructuredServices," and "ResultsValue" installing themselves after being moved to trash

For the last 3 days, despite having allow "Apple Apps only" in my settings, an App has been frequently loading itself onto my Mac, blocking my ability to control my mouse and keyboard & called "ApplicationEvents" on day 1, then "StructuredServices" on Day 2 then "ResultsValue" today. All three however have had the same green circle with a white magnifying glass in it as the logo. It suddenly appears already saying "Installation Complete" but I then have to wait 5 or 10 minutes until I regain control of my mouse to then drag it into trash, but I can't stop it happening and obviously I'm worried what it's accessing whilst I'm blocked out. I've updated all my Software and Settings etc, firewall is on, location is off, there is nothing left to update, but I still can't prevent it happening. For the first time today, before I dragged it into trash, I found it in extensions - saying it can read passwords, phone numbers and credit cards from all web pages - so I'm frantic now. Would appreciate any help and advice - thank you.

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Posted on Sep 24, 2019 8:03 AM

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G4RAY

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Sep 25, 2019 7:25 AM in response to Kurt Lang

You’re awesome Kurt. Thank you for your help and clear eyed explanation of a potentially confusing topic.

This discussion just just brought to mind something I may have clicked on. Seems there was a program that purportedly removed duplicate photos as I was having memory issues on my iMac since I take a lot of pictures and the newer iMacs have very limited storage.

Think I am understanding what happened now.

Thank you!!!

SLEVIE Author

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Sep 25, 2019 3:40 PM in response to Kurt Lang

Thank you Kurt

You're so generous with sharing your knowledge.

I'm now taking screenshots of everything & saving them all in a folder, so that I can hopefully be a bit less useless if I come across any similar issues in the future!

It has been a massive reassurance to have stumbled across this forum - & to be able to benefit from the level of expertise on there. Thanks again

Kurt Lang

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Sep 25, 2019 7:35 AM in response to G4RAY

You're welcome. 🙂

Sep 24, 2019 9:11 AM in response to G4RAY

G4RAY wrote:

Thank you Kurt!!!!!

I loaded the free software and it found 30 suspicious items including malware. All are gone now and my email is now working. That was definitely it.

Might have to spring for the subscription now since I am not using any anti virus software, obviously.

You can run Malwarebytes manually any time you want without getting the subscription.

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"ApplicationEvents," "StructuredServices," and "ResultsValue" installing themselves after being moved to trash