Help!! Virus pop-up?

Perhaps you could tell me, Linc, how Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac could possibly cause Safari's preferences window to fail to open. Because I wrote it, and knowing exactly how it functions - and the fact that it doesn't touch the Safari app at all - I certainly couldn't come up with any logical explanation. It's far more likely that this is completely unrelated to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac. Perhaps it's due to the adware that was installed, or perhaps it's completely unrelated.

Should I use the following topic to advocate that people avoid OS X Yosemite, or recognize that cause and effect in computing is not always related to whatever the most recent remembered change was?

Yosemite 10.10.1 ads problems

Linc Davis wrote:

Anyone who contemplates using the "malwarebytes" product is entitled to know about that report, posted by a user of this website, before deciding whether to give that product complete control of his computer.

Unless you yourself had physical access to the given MBP and conducted a forensic survey, your comment is simply conjecture on your part that there is a correlation. If I am incorrect, please provide facts that there is a direct connection. As I have indicated in the past, one may have their own opinions, but not their own facts. 🙂

Ciao.

thomas_r. wrote:

Perhaps you could tell me, Linc, how Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac could possibly cause Safari's preferences window to fail to open. Because I wrote it, and knowing exactly how it functions - and the fact that it doesn't touch the Safari app at all - I certainly couldn't come up with any logical explanation. It's far more likely that this is completely unrelated to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac. Perhaps it's due to the adware that was installed, or perhaps it's completely unrelated.

Should I use the following topic to advocate that people avoid OS X Yosemite, or recognize that cause and effect in computing is not always related to whatever the most recent remembered change was?

Yosemite 10.10.1 ads problems

Not a chance, even if **** freezes over, that what you asked for will happen. As you already know, he hasn't tested it on his own system to see if anything he keeps saying in one form or another is even remotely true--and he won't because if he did, he would find out that nothing he has been saying about your program is valid (with the sole tautological exception that it scans for adware and some OS X trojans), and he would have to stop his relentless, groundless obstruction aimed at preventing its use.