Q: Help!!! Suspected Malware or Virus...I'm not sure...
A friend used my computer and went to putlocker.is to watch movies and downloaded "MplayerX" update supposedly. He notified me and of course I freaked out. After I got to the computer, I noticed all of these pop us were coming up through Safari and that had never happened before on an install. Especially a pop up saying your computer has a virus please download this to continue... Since last night and after a few attempts to do little things I though would work like clear browser history, remove recent downloads increase safari preferences to block pop ups, delete and empty trash (which are kind of lame I know but I am not tech savvy) I am still getting crazy pop ups. Does this mean i have a virus, trojan, or malware? (Are those even the same thing?) Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? I can't afford for this to be an issue and I can't afford to take it Apple. Please help. I would never have let someone go to a website like that to watch movies but I didn't know he was going on a site like that.
MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), null
Posted on Feb 6, 2015 9:12 AM