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My MacBook air is Intel based. I get "Dominant Partitiond will damage your computer: EVERY TIME I boot up. I have run multiple virus/malware removal tools (free and purchased) and they say that no malware is detected.
BUT, I will get this message every time I boot up.
Can this deeply buried software be removed by doing total backup and then erasing entire MacBook, and then reinstall everything?
DominantPartition is an adware-type app with browser hijacking traits. This application operates by running intrusive advertisement campaigns and making changes to browser settings - in order to promote fake search engines and are typically are distributed through download/installation setups of other programs.
You are correct that this malware/adware does imbed itself into your system. AFAIK, the following are where they are installed:
I'm surprised none of the freeware/paid anti-malware apps did not detect this. Per chance did you try using Etrecheck?
DominantPartition is an adware-type app with browser hijacking traits. This application operates by running intrusive advertisement campaigns and making changes to browser settings - in order to promote fake search engines and are typically are distributed through download/installation setups of other programs.
You are correct that this malware/adware does imbed itself into your system. AFAIK, the following are where they are installed:
I'm surprised none of the freeware/paid anti-malware apps did not detect this. Per chance did you try using Etrecheck?
I did try Etrecheck (as suggested by one of the Malware cleaner companies). Nothing detected.
Conclusion: it is no longer there BUT has tweaked the OS to think it is. Not sure on this - just a guess by others.
Interesting ... and are you saying that the EtreCheck report did not include any of those locations I mentioned?
The locations you mentioned were not included. This may be the reason the company reviewing the results concluded that I needed to re-install entire OS.
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