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  • 14-11-2018 5:54pm
    #1
    Prominent_Dawg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭


    I just clicked into an airport official website page and a pop up saying "A website you have visited today has infected your Mac with a virus" appeared, I closed the page and cleared my data and cookies and checked my extensions is there anything else I should do


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  • #2
    Greentree_uk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Greentree_uk


    Prominent_Dawg wrote: »
    I just clicked into an airport official website page and a pop up saying "A website you have visited today has infected your Mac with a virus" appeared, I closed the page and cleared my data and cookies and checked my extensions is there anything else I should do

    Go to www.malwarebytes.com and check u don’t have some adware on ur mac


  • #3
    Prominent_Dawg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Prominent_Dawg


    would this not appear in extensions?


  • #4
    Greentree_uk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Greentree_uk


    Prominent_Dawg wrote: »
    would this not appear in extensions?

    Possibly, if you are clever enough to know them all and recognise malware behaviour, and there are many places for extensions but judging by your question I assumed you do not know them all. Even knowing them I’d still run a malware check to be sure but it could just equally be a hacked site


  • #5
    melchior1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭melchior1951


    Most likely the website you visited displayed malicious ads. This is a quite common scheme, often you see ads as well with the title 'Is your Mac slow?' or warnings about viruses found on your Mac. Sometimes they are made to look like a warning dialog from the operating system. When you click on it, they try to sell you useless anti-virus or similar software. Don't worry about it.


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