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Mac Redirect Virus

Hello,

Hope you guys are doing well.

i have encountered with a strange redirect virus “pwz2”. What is does it, it automatically pops up on Safari/Chrome and takes you a new tab and asks you for checkout of any websites you have visited.


i have removed all third party apps, cleared caches and cookies, still the virus doesn’t go.


can someone please help. It looks like phishing and could steal information.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 9, 2020 2:35 PM

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Posted on Jul 9, 2020 2:44 PM

It's not a virus. You unknowingly installed something. Mostly likely adware.


Download and run MalwareBytes for Mac. It's free to use and easily uninstalled using its menu option when you're done with it.

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Mac Redirect Virus

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