Pop-up windows "Do you want the application “Chromium.app” to accept incoming network connections?" I don't have Chromium

Hi-

We have been receiving the same message unsolicited. We are afraid there is someone trying to get access to our computer. We do not have Chrome installed on our Mac which makes this more suspicious.

Thanks!

We've been getting this message for over a week or so. I can't seem to figure out what triggered it and how to get rid of it. We have Chrome. I uninstalled it, ran a virus & malware detection program. Zero things were reported. I installed it again and ran it again and still nothing is coming up. I had someone share some articles online, but they didn't really seem to be about this same exact issue. I don't have "chromium" anywhere on my computer. I viewed the activity monitor and don't see it anywhere in there either.

When the pop up first appeared, I hit Deny. But it would keep coming back over and over again. Then I hit allow and nothing changed. So no matter what I do, the pop ups keep coming. Not sure if it has something to do with my adblocker program.

So if anyone knows what caused this or what I can do to stop it, please let me know! I only have this program on my desktop, not on my MacBook, and my MacBook is running all the same browsers and programs (including the adblocker plus.)

I had to finally cll apple support and after 2 calls and trying to power on in safe mode which didn't work, I finally reached someone they transferred me to (I think some type of engineer) and they walked me thru some things in my library and got rid of some files and was able to finally get rid of this pop up. The was on 10/21 and it has not come back. I started off doing a chat with an advisor and then they transferred me to a Senior Advisor and then that person got me to where I got the help. IT took a while but it worked. I can't remember all we did but give them a call and good luck!

FWIW, you should uninstall Sophos. It adds nothing to protect your Mac and slows it's performance. At times it also removes "false positives" which are actually legitimate system files.

what did you do to get rid of it? Nothing I do gets rid of it

I'm getting that message now. How did you fix the problem?

"virus & malware detection program"

Any such software causes problem rather then solving them. I suggest you uninstall it before it corrupts the file system on your Mac.

Could you share how you got it done? I'm having the same issue. thanks

Could you share how you got it done? I'm having the same issue. thanks

Could you share how you got it done? I'm having the same issue. thanks

Could you share how you got it done? I'm having the same issue. thanks

Could you share the solution? I'm having the same problem and ready to tear my hair out! thanks