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rasana123 Author

Level 1

11 points

Unable to Remove Malware Crusher

Hi,

I'm unable to remove Malware Crusher from my Macbook Air OS X El Capitan (10.16.11).

I'm very careful about what I download. I clicked on Abode Flash upgrade by mistake, and it installed this. Force quit won't kill the process.

I went to the command line, grabbed the PID and tried to kill it that way, but it keeps spawning new processes. I find nothing in /Library/LaunchDaemons or /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Can you help?

I was a Unix sysadmin 16 years ago, so it's been a while. But I'm able to work off the command line.

TIA!

Rasana

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), iOS 8.1.1, My iOS is newer than drop-down menu

Posted on Jun 4, 2017 11:59 AM

22 replies

rasana123 Author

Level 1

11 points

Jun 7, 2017 1:37 PM in response to Tesserax

Googling this was the first thing I did. No one is reporting anything. I'll try the rest. Thanks!

rasana123 Author

Level 1

11 points

Jun 7, 2017 1:40 PM in response to haize

Will try this. Thank you.

thomas_r.

Level 7

32,001 points

Jun 8, 2017 6:09 AM in response to LAM09

LAM09 wrote:

I tried Malwarebytes, but it doesn't find this Malware Crusher. It's very well hidden!

It should detect and remove it now.

LAM09

Level 1

17 points

Jun 8, 2017 9:53 AM in response to thomas_r.

It showed up in the scan this time and was reportedly removed. Thank you so much.

thomas_r.

Level 7

32,001 points

Jun 8, 2017 1:37 PM in response to LAM09

LAM09 wrote:

It showed up in the scan this time and was reportedly removed. Thank you so much.

No problem, I'm glad I could help!

BBUX

Level 1

4 points

Oct 24, 2017 8:59 AM in response to rasana123

Were you able to fully remove this? Would love to hear how you did it.

Thanks,

BBux

LAM09

Level 1

17 points

Oct 25, 2017 7:22 AM in response to BBUX

I downloaded the program Malwarebytes and it successfully removed the Crusher and whatever else was in my system.

Unable to Remove Malware Crusher