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Malware

Deep Thought · 2017-01-24 08:12:38

Recently notice that I was getting an huge amount of popups on my Mac Downloaded ClamXAV and Malwarebytes and it found three dodgy files, they referenced Genieo and I think were uploaded as part of a "Flash Update" link I may have clicked. All clean now, but just mentioning it in case someone else is seeing something like…

24-01-2017 09:12AM

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Deep Thought

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Recently notice that I was getting an huge amount of popups on my Mac

Downloaded ClamXAV and Malwarebytes and it found three dodgy files, they referenced Genieo and I think were uploaded as part of a "Flash Update" link I may have clicked.

All clean now, but just mentioning it in case someone else is seeing something like this

DT

The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.

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