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Is Malware bytes a good thing to use on my MacBook?

Posted on Dec 8, 2020 12:31 PM

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Posted on Dec 8, 2020 1:03 PM

Snert2 wrote:

Is Malware bytes a good thing to use on my MacBook?

If you suspect you installed adware or malware— yes it is a trusted utility.


Alternatively there are manual ways of removing adware or malware:

>System Preferences>Profiles click into it and then remove all the suspicious things from the list. (This Preference pane will not be present if no profiles found.)


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


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.)



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Dec 8, 2020 1:03 PM in response to Snert2

Snert2 wrote:

Is Malware bytes a good thing to use on my MacBook?

If you suspect you installed adware or malware— yes it is a trusted utility.


Alternatively there are manual ways of removing adware or malware:

>System Preferences>Profiles click into it and then remove all the suspicious things from the list. (This Preference pane will not be present if no profiles found.)


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


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.)



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