Mac keeper says I have tapsnake virus! Is this real

I had that situation too. Just don't trust it. Mac keeper says fake stuff. What they want is money. That is it. (If you want to get rid of mac keeper meassgaes try Avast mac security for free. No trails)

You want to stay as far away from Avast or any other supposed "Anti-Virus" software for Mac period. They are all destructive and create havoc in various ways on your Mac. A few years ago, Avast was responsible for wiping out iTunes Libraries randomly.

None of them are good to install on your Mac unless you are also running Windows.

GB

you dont need to be scared at all, if you never installed anything suspicious or something that you didnt know what it is, you are most likely to not have a virus at all... and btw never install mackeeper, they are an adware, once you install it, they will seriously fill your mac with garbage and pop up, so for the love of anything holy, dont install mackeeper, never install it. And yes, it is of course lying, as far as i know, browser could chek your computer for any malware at all, lets start a move to avoid mackeeper at all cost mate. it will help anyone who are not really computer savvy avoid an adware to actually get inside their computer

Get rid of MacKeeper! You do not have a virus, you have a piece of garbage piece of software that will only mess up your Mac....

Best of luck,

GB

Mackeeper is junk and difficult to remove. Search for the correct removal procedure.

Barry

How to uninstall MacKeeper from your Mac | Macworld

How to Remove MacKeeper

As soon as you uninstall MacKeeper all of those false warnings about virus will go away.

Tapsnake is not Mac malware. Your Mac cannot be infected with Tapsnake.

As the others have indicated, though, MacKeeper is a scam that should be removed.

What you describe doesn't sound like MacKeeper, though I suppose it could be. It may be a JavaScript scam that only affects your web browser, and only temporarily. There are several ways to recover.

1. Some of those scam pages can be dismissed very easily. Press the key combination command-W to close the tab or window. A huge box will pop up. Press the return key and both the box and the page will close. If that doesn't happen, continue.

2. Press and hold command-W. You may hear repeating alert sounds. While holding the keys, click the OK button in the popup. A different popup may appear, which you can cancel out of as usual.

3. From the Safari menu bar, select

Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Security

and uncheck the box marked Enable JavaScript. Leave the preferences dialog open.

Close the malicious window or tab.

Re-enable JavaScript and close the preferences dialog.

4. If the Preferences menu item is grayed out, quit Safari. Force quit if necessary. Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock. None of the windows and tabs will reopen.

After closing the malicious page, from the menu bar, select

Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data

to get rid of any cookies or other data left by the server. Open your Downloads folder and delete anything you don't recognize.

it says i have a virus but is it lying

"It" being MacKeeper? Yes.

Follow these instructions to uninstall MacKeeper. They have been tested with the most recent version of MacKeeper. Earlier versions than the one released in 2012 require more extensive work to uninstall all its components.

If you actually used MacKeeper to alter your system, e.g. "remove excess binaries" or such, you will need to reinstall OS X as well as all your additional software. Uninstalling MacKeeper is insufficient to reverse the corruption it is capable of - once again, that is if you used it.

If you merely installed MacKeeper but did not use it to perform any particular action, the following instructions will suffice.

• If you used MacKeeper to encrypt any files or folders, use MacKeeper to un-encrypt them first.
• Quit the MacKeeper app if it is running.
• Open your Applications folder: Using the Finder's Go menu, select Applications.
• Drag the MacKeeper icon from your Applications folder (not the Dock) to the Trash.

You will be asked to authenticate (twice):

You do not need to provide a reason for uninstalling it:

Just click the Uninstall MacKeeper button. You will be asked to authenticate again.

After it uninstalls you may empty the Trash and restart your Mac. All that will remain is an inert log file that does nothing but occupy space on your hard disk.

It's not real you can try clamxav or adware medic both are donation ware but you don't have to donate to use it. instead of mac keeper.

Thanks Linc, Number 4 worked for me. My wife clicked on an email and got one of those similar messages saying something about 'Snap Snake' virus was detected, I think it was http: macupdate... I looked for MacKeeper and didn't find it on my apps. Again, tip #4 helped me and saved me a trip to the Apple store because when I kept restarting my computer the same message came up when opening Safari, but I did my searching on Firefox and it opened ok.

I have Macbook Pro. When I received pop-up saying I had virus, I clicked Scan but did not Download suggested MacKeeper. Nothing appears in my downloads. What else should I do?

Thanks,

Cara

Ignore any message that pops up to tell you that it has detected a virus. Do not interact with such messages. Do not call any number presented.

Cara Cuore wrote:

I have Macbook Pro. When I received pop-up saying I had virus, I clicked Scan but did not Download suggested MacKeeper. Nothing appears in my downloads. What else should I do?

Probably nothing. Read Phony "tech support" / "ransomware" popups and web pages.