I have a virus on my MacBook, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

unplug thn replug ur Mac to reset ur smc... if it dont work thn reinstall ur Mac OS

hi.. so basically elementState.system is a file that stores info bout the state of the system such as battery health network status ect.. its in ur directory. /private/var/db/ if its Taking loads of space in ur Mac most probably its corrupt or its got outdated data

I had the same thing pop up on my computer! I had 3 pop ups... creativemanager, litra, and something else... I was freaking out thinking it had to be a virus. Did you ever get this resolved?? My macbook is super old and I can't replace it. Any help would be great!

krystalyn7304 wrote:

I had the same thing pop up on my computer! I had 3 pop ups... creativemanager, litra, and something else... I was freaking out thinking it had to be a virus. Did you ever get this resolved?? My macbook is super old and I can't replace it. Any help would be great!

Please read the following, and post the three screenshots requested:

About those "<app> will damage your computer" messages - Apple Community.

I am suddenly getting 2 popup messages: "'Mystery Tapes' will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash' and another mentioning Skype. Like others in this discussion, when I click Move to Trash the popup goes away and the other one appears. I removed Skype from my applications - I never use it anymore anyway. But the other one (Mystery Tapes) does not show up anywhere on my MacBookPro (using Ventura 13.6.1). Help, please.

I have attached the three files. What are the next steps?

EmilyGen wrote:

I am suddenly getting 2 popup messages: "'Mystery Tapes' will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash' and another mentioning Skype. Like others in this discussion, when I click Move to Trash the popup goes away and the other one appears. I removed Skype from my applications - I never use it anymore anyway. But the other one (Mystery Tapes) does not show up anywhere on my MacBookPro (using Ventura 13.6.1).

The other two directories look valid.

Since Skype is gone, the ecamm app can go, too.

Thanks so much. Last night (before I received your reply) I shut down and restarted by computer. When the pop-ups came back, I clicked send to trash and they went away (!). Not sure if they "planned" to come back. But they were not on my computer this morning before I removed the suspect files. I hope this will now do the trick!

RandomStick wrote:

do you now what pin manager.incard is?

In what context? Some app or tool installed on your Mac? Something found when researching the “will damage” dialog that indicates that some janky malware is trying to get going on this Mac?

incard provide financial services, and do use PINs. For assistance with incard, contact incard support.

CAC and more recently PIV cards and other authentication tokens can involve related apps, when the authentication system is not using the built-in smart card authentication support within macOS. How those add-on apps might identify themselves and their related support wherever you’re finding this particular incard detail?

Use a smart card on Mac - Apple Support

If this is the “will damage” dialog from the rest of this thread and a seven-word query from some other context, please post the three screenshots requested in the following:

About those "<app> will damage your computer” messages - Apple Community

I’m having same problem and I am not able to connet to server. Did you find any solutions for this? Thanks

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I cannot connect to wifi, so I wont be able to cloud them, but thanks anyway. I guess I have to try reinstall the os

I have exactly the same issue for the past week. Can't find the culprit file. Can't remove the pop-up window that never disappears. Can't find any fix in the net with the similar issue until now.

I have the same proplem.. and the file actually exist on my mac.. I''ve tried deleting it once but it came back with the same message.

I’m getting the second screenshot msg on my mac, how’d you resolve it? Thanks:)