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airmenstar Author

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[unknown app] is damaged and can't be opened?

Hello everyone. I just upgraded to Catalina and I keep receiving this alert from mac that "pzesospbomem” is damaged and can’t be opened." I have no idea what that is. It says either "show in finder" and "ok" and when I click show in finder, nothing happens. I have looked all over my macbook and I have no such app. I have no idea what it is. When I click ok the message just keeps popping up. I have restarted twice and shut down. Please help me figure this out

MacBook

Posted on Oct 7, 2019 5:55 PM

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etresoft

Level 8

46,870 points

Posted on Oct 7, 2019 6:34 PM

This is almost certainly malware. Catalina is probably blocking the execution, but the script that launches it is still in place. Download MalwareBytes (https://www.malwarebytes.com) and see if it removes anything.

And be very careful about posting or sending any personal information over the internet. Do NOT override ANY security settings.

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