Does anyone know or have any info on this app...

[easy4lif]

friend of mine has been having issues lately with her 2011 Mac mini. she explained that this app appeared out of nowhere, when she clicked on it it opened on the dock and then safari quit

I tried to find any info on this app with no luck.

Its called ManagerBoost

 

[splifingate]

Your post is the top hit on Goog . . .

. . . trash it

Regards, splifingate

 

[DeltaMac]

I would be inclined to agree.

You should run Malwarebytes, to see what that reports on your friend's Mac.

 

[easy4lif]

Well...

she thinks her kids might have downloaded it from somewhere. She’s gonna block them from doing similar in the future.

she’s gonna transfer her files to a new iMac today. Just her stuff on her home directory. All her apps, she’ll download directly from Microsoft etc.

weird that no one can find any info what

 

[DeltaMac]

Quite often, when I see an unusual app, but having a common kind of name, there are some kinds of malware that do exactly that -- place the app that is associated with that malware, and give it a random name that seems mostly normal.
(And the app's name may not exist anywhere else, and the malware just uses random words to make a new name for the app, each time the malware is encountered)

Again, one key here is to give Malwarebytes an opportunity to scan that drive, and see what Malwarebytes reports!

 

[easy4lif]

So, it was malware! She deleted the app several times and it would just pop back up. The main thing however, was that it would redirect safari searches. If you directed safari to search “x” on google search, it would take 30 seconds+, then redirect you to yahoo and give u its search results. It wouldn’t let you use any other search engines.

google “safari redirects my search to yahoo”. Brought up pages of result

she ended up just wiping the drive and doing a fresh install of high seirra

ps. I’m kinds surprised xprotect didn’t stop or flag this

 

[DeltaMac]

Malwarebytes will usually hit on any adware, and would give you the choice to remove it, plus any other bits that malware might have left on the system (and there likely was something which would reload the app each time it was deleted. The rest of that malware would probably be detected (and removed) by Malwarebytes. I consider it an essential tool that does a good job fixing the occasional "My kids went to some weird site, and now my searches are all re-directed"
Your friend might even have done that, not "the kids", and chooses not to admit it -- but then went through that whole "wipe and reinstall" when it probably was not necessary. (talk your friend into installing Malwarebytes - might save some aggravation in the future!)