Yesterday i had my first mac virus or spyware. The name of the bastard is installgeniola.dmg But, i run mac osx mavericks still and this can be the reason the spyware hit my iMac. ClamXav, MalwareBytes Anti-Malware did not find it. The antivirus app i write about below did.
There is one antivirus app that is not accessible at all. To me it looks like one of the least accessible apps i ever tried with voice over. However, with voice over, it is possible to install it. Then open it. Go into properties and set it up to your preferences. After this, the next step is to do a scan, open quaranties etc. It is dead unaccessible with voice over. However, get sighted help who can with your guidence make sure that it is running in the background and do the first full scan. Then you can say goodbye to your sighted friend and forget about the Avira antivirus. Its running in the background, automatically capture virus and automatically put them in quarantine. Letting you do other things. The warnings, i guess, is accessible like the scanning window, after pressing the unaccessible scan button. Its easy for a sighted to hit scan and bfore that read for you whats on the app screen. Takes 5 minutes. Why bother? It looks like Avira Free Antivirus for mac is the best antivirus app right now. According to this test http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-antivirus,review-2588-6.html It was the only app among ClamXav and MalwareBytes Anti-Malware that captured and erased after quarantine this installgeniola.dmg virus. Personally i throw away ClamXav in the trash, but keep MalwareBytes Anti-Malware as an accessible manual scan at the moment for scanning by chance when i want to. Also i have Sophos as a manual scanner for the same reason i.e. manual scanning at free will. This means, only Avira free antivirus for mac is running in the background. Who knows, later this year, maybe an accessible scanner is best in test. I only refer to the test. i am just an ordinary user of apple products. Not an security expert. Take care 12. feb. 2016 kl. 00:46 skrev Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com>: When I opened Safari back up the same controlling pop ups appeared. I was able to force quit the app. I ran another scan, which came up clean. I even scanned the Safari app. After doing some Googling, I held down shift while launching Safari from the doc. Safari opened like normal & I cleared history & all website data. Is there anything else I can do to know if there are embedded malware files in my system? Thank you, Traci > On Feb 11, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Ray Foret Jr <rforet7...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Most likely, you ran across a piece of web malware which, had you attempted > to interact with it, it would have infected your system. YOu seem to have > taken the correct action. I myself was hit by such an attempt not too long > ago. When I clicked on a site, I heard a very loud 1KHZ tone and got an > alert message saying that because of a third party application, my unit was > infected and to call a number to get help. Of course, I knew better and was > able to get out of it. Seems to me there's more and more of this stuff > popping up every day. > > Good for you for taking the action you did. > > > Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in > > Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, > > Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice Guidance, Mac, Verizon Wireless > iPhone6+ and Apple TV user! > >> On Feb 11, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Okay, this is a first for me on my Mac. I went to the site IX Converter >> .com to convert a video, and all sorts of pop ups appeared when I clicked >> convert. I could not get out of them. An audible message kept repeating >> about a security threat & call this number. >> >> I forced shutdown my Mac, waited a minute, then started it back up. I >> opened ClamXav, updated definitions & ran a scan. I don’t know the ins & >> outs of this app, so not sure how thorough the scan was, but it came up >> clean. >> >> Do y’all have further suggestions to ease my mine. I’ve never had a >> security thing like this on my Mac. *A little freaked out. ;) >> >> Thanks so much, >> Traci >> PS. 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