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Raymond Frake Author

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100 points

com.apple.fonts.app alert keeps popping up after Mojave install

Every time I open an app after I installed Mojave I get an alert popping up saying "com.apple.fonts.app" wants access to such and such app. Any idea what's going on here and how to get rid of this annoying alert.

Thanks,

Ray

iMac, macOS Mojave (10.14), 32 GBs of RAM

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 5:22 PM

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Antonio Tejada

Level 1

24 points

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 5:34 PM

I'm in the middle of helping a friend with this issue, and I think I have arrived at a disturbing conclusion: I think it's a covert key logger. If you look inside the com.apple.fonts.app bundle, the info.plist file contains this URL: http://www.widestep.com/fdbck/emailstore/submit.php?application=EliteKeyloggerMa c

First, in Terminal, run:

sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.fonts.plist

Then, if the com.apple.fonts.plist process is still running, kill it in Activity Monitor or terminal.

And of course, run an anti-malware tool, and assume you've been compromised and change passwords.

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