Pop-up window: Apple wants to make changes

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.

Same problem here. I downloaded Malwarebytes for mac but the pop up box with pic of a padlock on it is not accepting my apple password so I’m unable to run Malwarebytes.

that popup box does want my apple password, correct? Or maybe it wants the pin number to my bank account? Sorry, I’m aggravated.

It's malware/adware. Do not enter your password.

Restart and hold down the Shift key. This will put the Mac into Safe Mode. Only specific items are allowed to load, meaning this garbage will not be able to pop up. Once in Safe Mode, then you'll be able to run MalwareBytes to remove it.

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.

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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?

What exactly are you doing when this occurs?

(you Mac will bark at you like this if it believes that "you" don't have "permission" to do that thing)