Is this an adware?
Hi, so I just bought my MacBook yesterday. This's the very first time I use Apple product so I'm still unfamiliar with it.
Somehow I got adware that always opens a new tab to ps4ux.com when I open Safari and when it has opened the ps4ux.com to the new tab, I can't click anything on the page that I was open. I had tried using Malwarebytes Anti-malware and erase the files. But it seems to always coming back with different names and detected with Malwarebytes as I tried to scan it a few more times after that.
I found someone on the forum suggesting to restart in Safe Mode then open LaunchDaemon folder to look for random names of .plist while sorted then in Date Added
As I write this post, I restart my Mac in Safe Mode and open the LaunchDaemon folder to see if there's still adware lurking around.
So this's what I found on the LaunchDaemon folder (with date added):
com.adobe.adobeupdatedaemon.plist yesterday
com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist yesterday
com.malwarebytes.HelperTool.plist yesterday
com.adobe.agsservice.plist previous 7 days
On the LauchAgents folder:
com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist yesterday
com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist previous 7 days
On Logs folder:
Adobe folder
CrashReporter folder
CreativeCloud folder
DiagnosticReports folder
LKDC-setup.log
I don't know what LKDC-setup.log is and when I open it, it contains bunch of command things that refer to Heimdal.framework
On Frameworks folder:
AEProfilling.framework
AERegistration.framework
AudioMixEngine.framework
iTunesLibrary.framework
NyxAudioAnalysis.framework
PluginManager.framework
NyxAudioAnalysis.framework sounds like it doesn't belong there, so is it supposed to be there or not? If it is, what does it for?
On Caches folder:
com.apple.AutoTimeZone.plist
com.apple.Components2.LocalCache.AudioComponents
com.apple.Components2.LocalCache.Components
com.apple.Components2.LocalCache.QuickTimeComponents
com.apple.desktop.admin.png (this's a picture file)
com.apple.iconservices.store (this one a folder)
com.apple.ImageCaptureExtension2.ICADeviceDatabase.501
On Application Support folder (this's all folders):
Adobe
AdobeAdobe PCD
AdobeSLCache
App Store
Apple
ApplePushService
com.apple.TCC
CrashReporter
GarageBand
iLifeMediaBrowser
Logic
Macromedia
ProApps
Script Editor
This's all that I've checked
Is there's still some adware in these folders or has it cleaned up?
Anyway, I'm also a bit unfamiliar with Adware as well. So I wanted to ask is Adware dangerous, I mean as dangerous as it can "hacked" your hard drive and erased things and stuff inside (I mean like even when you're not online, it still can destroy your data), or just an annoying advertisement popping up whenever you're online (and only when you're online)?
Thank you in advance.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), OS X El Capitan ver. 10.11.6
