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Popup error massage does not disappear

The following error message pops up after restart, and does not disappear:


“NEARWOODCE” will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 29, 2020 6:17 AM

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Posted on Aug 29, 2020 7:38 AM

LevMichal wrote:

The following error message pops up after restart, and does not disappear:

“NEARWOODCE” will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash





I suspect you have installed adware/malware:


>System Preferences>Profiles. found next to Accessibility (click into it and then remove all the suspicious things from the list.) May or may not be present if no profiles found.


Adware Removal Guide—Manual removal of : http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-identification/

or

Try running this trusted utility https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/


also Verify you are not using SOCKS proxy:

>System Preferences>Networks>Advanced>Proxy uncheck the box


Adware/malware launch daemons can set SOCKS proxies without user participation.

(SOCKS is an Internet protocol that exchanges network packets between a client and server through a proxy server.)



Nearwoodce is a browser-hijacking program that may constantly force the main browser of your Mac to launch abrupt page redirects.


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Aug 29, 2020 7:38 AM in response to LevMichal

LevMichal wrote:

The following error message pops up after restart, and does not disappear:

“NEARWOODCE” will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash





I suspect you have installed adware/malware:


>System Preferences>Profiles. found next to Accessibility (click into it and then remove all the suspicious things from the list.) May or may not be present if no profiles found.


Adware Removal Guide—Manual removal of : http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-identification/

or

Try running this trusted utility https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/


also Verify you are not using SOCKS proxy:

>System Preferences>Networks>Advanced>Proxy uncheck the box


Adware/malware launch daemons can set SOCKS proxies without user participation.

(SOCKS is an Internet protocol that exchanges network packets between a client and server through a proxy server.)



Nearwoodce is a browser-hijacking program that may constantly force the main browser of your Mac to launch abrupt page redirects.


Popup error massage does not disappear

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