Pop up won't go away

On my Mac Book Air a pop up keeps coming up on my screen it says "UnitHadlerd" will damage your computer and it say it is a malware. I have been pushing ok several times and it keeps coming back up, it also has the option to show in finder I have also pushed that several times but nothing comes up when I push this. How do I get rid of this?

Posted on Feb 25, 2021 6:20 PM

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Go-dubs

Level 2

246 points

Feb 25, 2021 6:34 PM in response to kailee37

Use malwarebytes to remove it.

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