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Saturn_022 Author

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Safari Virus alert.

I have heard that these are scams but it said there was a "rootkit" installed on my mac. I ran a malware scan using Malwarebytes and it found nothing. Was this warning real or not?

MacBook Air (M2, 2022)

Posted on Sep 25, 2023 10:28 AM

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Niel

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Posted on Sep 25, 2023 10:31 AM

It's a scam. A message warning of malware will only be legitimate if you manually started a scanner or uploaded a file to a website.

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