Suspicious app "Cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified" and cant be found to be deleted!

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Suspicious app "Cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified" and cant be found to be deleted!

i have recently come across a weird issue with my macbook pro (Catalina 10.15.4) and a unknown application. i have recently updated my mac to the current software and now i keep getting the error message - " "uelmeld.app" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified " (move to bin or cancel are the options), now i have no clue what this app is and google searches havent helped me much and obviously i dont want to open it so i go to "move to bin" but another error message - " "uelmeld.app" could not be moved to bin - please move this to the bin manually." i cant find it in finder or on my computer at all and these boxes are just reappearing without fail every time i close/cancel or whatever. Please if you know whats going on i would greatly appreciate you

Posted on Mar 30, 2020 1:08 AM

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HWTech

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Mar 30, 2020 10:44 AM in response to Aaron.JL

If this is malware, then you can try using MalwareBytes to remove it. Don't use any other anti-virus or cleaning app as they don't work well on Macs. MalwareBytes is the exception to the rule.

You can also try booting into Safe Mode and running MalwareBytes or manually deleting the item.

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