I have Webroot secure for my MacBook Air. Webroot detected a threat called MRT Lazarus and deleted the file. Some say that Webroot mistakes the MRT.app in the Apple software for a virus. Any insights on this subject?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.1
MRT is Apple's abbreviation for their Malware Removal Tool. Read about it here: Protecting against malware in macOS - Apple Support.
I strongly recommend removing the non-Apple "anti-virus" product as MrHoffman wrote for those reasons and more. Such products differ only in their degree of worthlessness — which encompasses effects that range from benign but useless, all the way to malicious.
MRT is Apple's abbreviation for their Malware Removal Tool. Read about it here: Protecting against malware in macOS - Apple Support.
I strongly recommend removing the non-Apple "anti-virus" product as MrHoffman wrote for those reasons and more. Such products differ only in their degree of worthlessness — which encompasses effects that range from benign but useless, all the way to malicious.
Remove the anti-malware app.
Add-on anti-malware is problematic at best, can add vulnerabilities, can add instabilities and crashes and misbehaviors, and can mis-identify legitimate apps and tools.
One well-known anti-malware package was selling personally-identifiable web browsing activities and users’ personally-identifiable web purchasing data.
For most folks that are keeping their computers patched to current, add-on anti-malware is typically unnecessary and provides little or no benefit over the built-in anti-malware.
We’re not getting hit with viruses like Windows was back in the 1990s, we’re deliberately loading adware and sketchy-coupon apps (and are those really malware?), and we’re getting our credentials phished. Which anti-malware really doesn’t help with.
MRT.app
