Pop-up window: Apple wants to make changes

QZ9 wrote:

"True" maleware or not, it was a PITA. One doesn't know, when faced with the pop-up, the degree of its maliciousness. Therefore, all such occurrences should be aggressively attacked.

I agree. However, my intent in providing the additional information was to put your mind at ease that your computer and your personal information are not at risk here.

I've been getting this same pop-up for several weeks now - (Apple wants to make changes). I did notice that anysearch had somehow slithered into my Safari extensions, and have deleted that, but the problem persists.

I've recently been keeping an eye on the Network pane in activity monitor to see if I can catch what's causing this. The last time it happened, the following showed up:

Process Name: P

Sent Bytes: 2kb

Recvd By...: 214kb

Sent Pack...: 3

Rcvd Packets: 156

PID: 5161

Could P be the culprit here, and if so where could it be hiding on my computer? Searching for P on my hard drive was not very fruitful.

I've had this issue. I just ran Malware Bytes and cleared out malware that I thought I had already deleted. Stupid "anysearch" add on. Guess where I got it? From downloading Adobe flash player. Hopefully that cleans up my issues.

Some times web pages put of fake download acrobat with a fake site with the altered copy of adobe

Or they don't include the Flash Player at all. Just a simple installation screen they made to look like Adobe's installer.

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'd recommend checking your apps if you have small kids. They download games off the internet. ex. club penguin, runescape, something called Jangoram is a big problem that keeps coming back after I find that these games have been installed. They hide malicious software in these apps that take over your browser.

Is there any way to escalate this question? I am still getting the popup once per day.

MB Pro early 2015 OS 10.13.6

The box you're seeing is legitimate.

I though we determined it was fake. I don't think that is the wording used in macOS.

Here what I see when Finder asks for an admin password.

R

Experienced the same issue, per apple support recommendation downloaded Malwarebytes, here are results..

Second scan results after MacBook restart... Deleted file... Hope this helps...

Screen of Quarantine before deleting files....

this is a software problem reported in the podcast security now. see my post "speech downloader is trying to modify your system"

This is pending Apple to correct the issue.

Have you tried disconnecting from internet services and then allowing the change? Were there any updates recently since this started popping up? Have you restarted the device?