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Sep 30, 2016 2:18 PM in response to fries9by JimmyCMPIT,★Helpfulmany of use use malwarebytes for mac which can remove malware/adware it has identified, but it does not protect you against getting it.
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Sep 30, 2016 2:57 PM in response to fries9by Madi M.,★HelpfulTry Norton Security, Dr. Web Antivirus or Avast. All of them can be downloaded from official web sites and installed without any problems.
Note that Norton Security and Dr. Web Antivirus softwares are paid and do offer 30 day free trial. Avast is fully free.
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Sep 30, 2016 9:37 AM in response to Madi M.by JimmyCMPIT,or just drive a 10 penny nail through your foot with a ball peen hammer and experience what 30 days of Norton Anti-Virus will do to the stability of OS X.
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Sep 30, 2016 9:58 AM in response to JimmyCMPITby Madi M.,I've used Norton on my both Macbook Pro and iMac, so far haven't noticed any changes.
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Sep 30, 2016 10:10 AM in response to Madi M.by JimmyCMPIT,read the forums here and norton and many other Mac Anti-Virus software can register false positives, destroy backup integrity, harm system interoperability, cause crashes to desktops and kernel panics. It has never been tested with any actual mac virus as at this time and they are poor choices for defending against windows attacks when windows AV solutions have had decades to mature and developers who are knowledgable with Windows and often have the benefit of working with Microsoft engineers to combat attacks. Mac developers do not have any of these resources and are often designing the product under a windows centric approach which does not apply itself to Mac OS.
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Sep 30, 2016 2:19 PM in response to JimmyCMPITby fries9,Thanks, but it requires minimum 10.8 and I have 10.7.5
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Sep 30, 2016 2:23 PM in response to leroydouglasby fries9,This link takes me to a post I already read, but it concerns Yosemite and I have 10.7.5 so it does not help/
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Sep 30, 2016 3:01 PM in response to Madi M.by fries9,Thanks. I'm now trying Avast. It required great care not to click on all sorts of other things on the site but I finally managed it. When I opened FireFox to get back to this group to reply it still tried to search with friendlysocket so it's not been removed yet. I'll see if I can work it out.
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Sep 30, 2016 3:41 PM in response to fries9by BobTheFisherman,Do not use any third party app that claims to clean, protect, manage, boost performance etc. of your computer. Read this article: Effective defenses against malware and other threats
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Sep 30, 2016 11:40 PM in response to BobTheFishermanby fries9,This explains perfectly what must have happened. I was doing a search recently and received messages that Firefox had refused access to the Adobe Flash version I used and I was eventually led to "update" it. I noticed fairly soon after that that any search was trying to go through search.friendly socket, and I immediately went to a new FireFox page instead.
I'm not at all computer literate but I've used Apples since the 2E many many years ago and am familiar with most cons and phishes.
I've downloaded avast but not realy used it yet. So my question now (basically the same one) is how to get rid of search.friendly socket, but also once I do that should I also get rid of avast too.
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Oct 1, 2016 1:51 AM in response to BobTheFishermanby fries9,Actually I have a supplimentary question now. I only allowed Avast to run for a couple of minutes before I stopped it to refer back to here, but in that time it says it has found support Freindly socket and also Support Lunaticake and moved these to "the Chest". I don't really understand the significance. Maybe I can find what it means by "the chest" but if anyone can help it would be useful. Also, are these 2 malware programs and if so what do I do to unload them?
Thanks in advance
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Oct 1, 2016 3:42 AM in response to fries9by OGELTHORPE,Since you have Lion installed, use this older version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac:
Ciao.