Do I have a virus?

[67bmer]

I got this pop up/re-direct. I am assuming this is completely bogus and closed it down immediately thinking I would never get something like this from apple!

 

[Intell]

That is a scam site. As long as you didn't click on anything and simply closed the window you are very likely safe.

 

[keysofanxiety]

What Intell said. If you want to err on the side of caution you can run a scan through MWB for Mac and remove anything it finds. Should only take a couple of minutes: https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac-download/

 

[MacGekko]

What Intell said. If you want to err on the side of caution you can run a scan through MWB for Mac and remove anything it finds. Should only take a couple of minutes: https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac-download/

Today I got a different one, google search for facebook, clicked the top result and instead of going to facebook.com, redirected to a page with this:

Microsoft Detected Security Error Due to Suspicious Activity From Your IP Address

Similar to what is discussed about here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...spicious/288a0cfe-3552-454f-84b5-d74f3cad8126

I did not download or install any programs before this happened, I closed the tab and deleted the cookie labeled SystemProtection.......com I did not fill out the full address of the cookie because I don't want anyone to mistakenly visit it.

In my experience over the years this is a rare event on my Mac, using safari and every time it never returned, I assume there is nothing to worry about but how does this thing pop up to begin with? I might have visited a sketchy site over the last couple of days because I think I misspelled a web address the other day and it took me to an alternate site, is that how it happens, through a cookie?

Update: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6516975

On that thread the answer seems to be it is a fake javascript alert.