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May 5, 2016 7:41 AM in response to Petrina89by jtheo454,I deleted this from activity monitor then switched to applications and deleted it. but i still have all of these stupid pop ups and a search engine called search tech? how do i get rid of that?!?
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May 11, 2016 5:17 PM in response to Tybauby laCygne57!,I cannot find MegaBackUp in my Activity Monitor, so I can't 'kill' it there. Any other suggestions? I have already deleted the app from my Applications center via going into the program and pressing ctrl+alt+delete, then going into Apps and removing it. However, these nasty ads are still popping up as well as the fake Mac Technical Support. Ideas?
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May 14, 2016 8:36 AM in response to Tybauby gkmccarvers,Thanks A MILLION. This worked for me. I had tried several other options. So I had a flash player pop up and when I went to install that, that's when this awful awful awful application installed itself. My question is HOW IS THIS LEGAL. It is so blasted awful. I cannot believe they can hijack adobe flash player and get off scott free. This happned on both our newest mac laptops we purchased. My daughter's and then mine. I had to google support (thank heavens for that and all of you on here) to get rid of it both times. Infuriating.
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May 20, 2016 5:13 PM in response to danielfromclarkstonby savyrmac,1. The said MegaBackup is a paid online storage service in the market.
2. Study shows that the Mac version of official client (md5, 1da8ffa9bec86e6adb61fa68f7673b60) is totally risk-free; meantime, some starters could also get MegaBackup for Mac installed along with some adware/ PUP like items. And MegaBackup for Windows (md5, e605553134f1eecdade1353c32fbd882) at least had detection ratio of 1 / 56, and it has been detected as Posible_Worm32 by TheHacker, according to a file file@ Virustotal from Google@ https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/ef8c0167a568122143fe30a9a5770a7a6ce7257a8f86b 51a41907a87ac66dec6/analysis/
3. Suggestion: Cleanly rid of MegaBackup on yr computer - follow this article if you still have trouble uninstalling the app on yr own; find better & safer alternative options like Dropbox for Mac, iDrive, and alike. For more, you can read http://www.macworld.com/article/1142606/online_backup.html
Take care!
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May 29, 2016 10:58 PM in response to danielfromclarkstonby HeyItzJames,Try Malwarebytes Malware remover i have used it for so much stuff and it has turned out to be a real progran and not show up as a threat to avast antivirus
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Jun 11, 2016 2:13 PM in response to KAArtisby Hexhaven,I have the same issue, except that when I attempt to move to Trash it tells me that I don't have permission to perform that task, even though I AM an admin. Can't kill the Launch Agent either....
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Jun 12, 2016 2:45 PM in response to Tybauby allisonkrug,I had this problem too but your method worked very well for me. Thank you so much! You have been very helpful!
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Jun 29, 2016 7:56 PM in response to danielfromclarkstonby tnuvi,Beware with the flash player updates, that is how Mackeeper and MegaBackup got into my computer. I followed all the instructions and was able to remove the applications, but my safari browser kept on showing another browser instead of the google one I have as default. I finally decided to use time machine and go to a previous version of my computer, as I am very careful with all my info in the computer. I didn't lose any files because I backed up my time machine 2 weeks ago and saved the new files in a pendrive before deleting all the info in my computer and using my latest backup. Good luck...
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Jul 26, 2016 9:10 AM in response to Mike Sombrioby magwire,kill it how? delete doesn't work
thanks
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Jul 31, 2016 10:27 AM in response to danielfromclarkstonby mmcswain,Thanks for the help with this everyone. I have never had this random stuff coming up on my Macbook before, and you all helped me solve this quickly!
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Aug 23, 2016 2:16 PM in response to Mike Sombrioby vickiefromsonoma,FINALLY! This was the answer! Thank you.