Virus question

Hello moeaustad,

Don't worry. It was all a scam. Apple has antivirus functionality built into the operating system. Adware and scamware are significant problems these days, but viruses. Let me know if you really want to do a an adware scan on your machine. There are only two functional adware detection and removal tools that I know of. Virtually everything else is a scam. Yes. It is that bad.

You could execute this little script in the Terminal and post the output for us. The script removes your user name, but shows us the contents of some typical places where malware (call it what you like, viruses, adware, scamware, etc etc, it's all the same to me) often drops files to persist itself on a mac.

If you're not familiar with the Terminal, it's an Apple app that you can find in /Applications/Utilities folder.

Triple click the code below to select it, command-C to copy it, then click inside the Terminal window and hit command-V to paste the code. Hit the return/enter key to execute it.

w=`id -un`;ls -alF /Lib*/Launch*/ ~/Lib*/Launch*/ /etc/*.sh | sed "s@$w@[redacted]@g"

Unless that message appeared in response to manually uploading a file, it's a scam; aside from this, there's no way for a website to tell that there's malware on a Mac OS X or iOS system.

If it did, delete that file or use ClamXav or a Windows product to scan it.

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