Pop-up window: Apple wants to make changes

Have been getting this pop-up 'Apple Wants to Make Changes' requesting my password. Not right so checked my extensions and plugins and found Stuckopoe and thought I successfully removed. This continued to happen so I ran Malware Bytes and it found and quarantined/removed several items, mostly Stuckopoe related. Will report back in a week or so to be sure this corrected the problem.

I had this issue, it kept saying Apple wants to make changes. Click on safari go to preference under the safari drop down box. Go to extensions you’ll see any search checked you’re going to uninstall it. Problem solved.

In my case I did not have any extensions listed in Safari preferences, yet I still had the same annoying pop-up. In the first week of installation, the free 30 day trial of Malwarebytes found and quarantined adware on two different occasions. I was so impressed with its scanning capabilities, I bought the year long coverage.

I had the same pop-up for a 2-3 weeks but I kept ignoring/closing it. So I found this thread about 4 days ago and I bought a $5 antivirus app from the app store, ran it, and it found 7 "adware" files. I removed those and that cleared it up. I haven't had the pop up since. Hope this helps.

I ran "Bitdefender Virus Scanner" it found and deleted "Ad.loader.1" twice (one in the root, one in the user), since then that nasty Pop-Up didn't show up.... so may be, it solved the issue.

I used to get this every day. I installed Malwarebytes 4 days ago, deleted the suspect items and have not had the pop-up since.

Apple can't protect every single user from themselves. You installed adware, or some form of malware from a download you installed. It's up to you to either figure out how to remove it, or restore you Mac from a backup that doesn't contain whatever you installed.

First off, MalwareBytes for Mac was written by a long-time trusted member here - thomas_r. - under the name of AdwareMedic

Thomas is now Director of Mc Products for the company.

Next, " Free download comes with a 30-day trial of Premium. " >

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/

So it is NOT a scam to get you to buy it - you cn clean up your system and uninstall it if you want

That box is supposed to wiggle when you enter an incorrect admin name, password, or both. The box you're seeing is legitimate. That is, the OS is presenting it because some app is asking permission to install in places it isn't normally allowed. In this case, it's a malicious app that you most definitely don't want to give such permission no matter how many times it asks.

The restart of Malwarebytes detects something is fairly normal. It does that because when macOS reboots it actually pulls in the parts of Gatekeeper that were designed to fight against malware and the restart also searches the purpose of stopping anything actively running to remove it. Go ahead and log back in and run another scan and also check your Applications list and make sure you recognize every program listed. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/apps-included-on-your-mac-mchl110b00b7/ mac

That link is a list of what’s built in so you know how to recognize what should be there that you didn’t install yoirs

Well, you have to trust someone.

Do a google search on the proposed solution and see what other people are saying.

site:discussions.apple.com malwarebytes

site:discussions.apple.com etrecheck

There are lots of etrecheck reports around here. Just go through and manually look where etrecheck looks.

example:

Etrecheck - BIG problems.

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"True" malware or not, it was a PITA.

No doubt.

The only reason for the distinction is malware is intended to do something malicious. Such as destroying files, encrypting your data (ransomware), or any other action that causes harm to your computer/files or tries to get money out of you.

Adware, on the other hand, is only highly annoying . Its not intended to do any of the above. Just bombard your computer with ads. Which, some of them do so aggressively, they slow the entire computer down.

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A Malwarebytes scan found something called com.SearchWebMesh. I'm not sure if that's the culprit or just another malware - will have to see if the popup appears again.

It happened to me in both Safari and Chrome. I ran the suggested Malwarebytes and it found 3 threats and deleted them.