lizzieb123

Q: my macbook air is full of malwares. How do I remove them?

I downloaded onyx and there I found that I have a lot of malware on my macbook pro. How should I remove them? Please help.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Oct 20, 2013 6:15 AM

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Q: my macbook air is full of malwares. How do I remove them?

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  • by victoryhat,

    victoryhat victoryhat Oct 20, 2013 3:37 PM in response to thomas_r.
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    Oct 20, 2013 3:37 PM in response to thomas_r.

    Well, I appreciate your response to my post. And I respect your level of maturity; my "blunt, but true" response was in no way meant as a personal attack on you, but I can see how it might be interpreted by others as such; I was 'attacking' the idea, not the person. You don't know how many times people tell me in a conversation about my Mac, "...oh cool, and they can't get viruses, right?"

     

    I thought the original question in the original post was dealing with 'malware' (put in quotes because I call all viruses and trojan ect. ect) malware.

     

    I have read many of your post's and other commenters' posts by clicking on your user name(s) and reading a lot of posts you, and others have made.

     

    Most interesting to me was Linc Davis' request in a post to advise him where he could actually download a piece of malware in order to study it. You all are very knowledgable and technically far superior to me (if not most on this forum).

     

    Sometimes the more experienced users give very technical answers to new users who don't even know where/what the systems preferences icon is located on their doc. I felt that the initial responses to lizzieb123, did nothing but sow confusion.  I was trying to make the point in my post, that as 'new users', we need to exhibit a greater level of 'due diligence' and use all of the tools (apps) at our disposal; with a litte 'scared straight' language thrown in.

     

    Your post's, along with others, on this forum, are raising my technical skill level/understanding , and I would like to take this opportunity to say "thank you."

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