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Receiving apple care warning of viruses

Receiving apple care warning of viruses in new macbook pro. Wondering if it is a legitimate warning to click on the scan now button. The warning is shown below:

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Mar 10, 2017 9:23 AM

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Posted on Mar 10, 2017 9:33 AM

Hi,

If Apple is doing this, it is the first I've ever heard of it. They build fixes into their security updates. I absolutely would not click on it.


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Dec 3, 2017 2:11 AM in response to JayKea

Hi, I had this screen pop up screen last night 2nd Nov 2017. Immediately suspicious screen looked genuine, but web address bar numbers only and a 2 minute countdown, not an Apple sort of thing so force quit Safari and closed down my Mac Book, reopened later and checked various programmes and documents and all OK, obviously a scam. Be aware it seems to have relaunched since episodes earlier in the year. Suggestion to everyone use Time Machine and a separate hard drive to keep everything backed up regularly.

Receiving apple care warning of viruses

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