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Malware Blocked Alert
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I found a thread about a similar alert in Apple's own forums with suggestions about what to do. Maybe that will help?
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Malware Blocked alert won't go away from … - Apple Community
Thank you. Will look into it and report back.I found a thread about a similar alert in Apple's own forums with suggestions about what to do. Maybe that will help?
Malware Blocked alert won't go away from … - Apple Community
Thanks guys, but those solutions are too complicated for my limited brain capacity. Besides, I'd likely screw something up worse than the problem at hand. So for now, my fix is to tuck that sucker as far as I can get it into the lower right corner and forget about it.
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What is StandardsBoostdd? Is it part of your login items? Did it first popup when you tried opening a file or running a program?
I wonder whether the malware is trying to re-launch over and over, so dismissing the window only appears to have no effect. I would try to track down what's launching it in the first place.
Appears to be malware. Browser extension and or profile.
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Malwarebytes might remove it.
www.malwarebytes.com
"StandardBoostd will damage your computer… - Apple Community
How to remove StandardBoostd - Apple Community
Malwarebytes might remove it.
Thank you for downloading Malwarebytes for Mac
Thanks for downloading Malwarebytes! Your download should have started automatically. If it didn’t, click here. Don’t want to be infected again?...
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Thanks. I'll look into it.Appears to be malware. Browser extension and or profile.
"StandardBoostd will damage your computer… - Apple Community
How to remove StandardBoostd - Apple Community
Malwarebytes might remove it.
Thank you for downloading Malwarebytes for Mac
Thanks for downloading Malwarebytes! Your download should have started automatically. If it didn’t, click here. Don’t want to be infected again?...
That worked!!Appears to be malware. Browser extension and or profile.
"StandardBoostd will damage your computer… - Apple Community
How to remove StandardBoostd - Apple Community
Malwarebytes might remove it.
Thank you for downloading Malwarebytes for Mac
Thanks for downloading Malwarebytes! Your download should have started automatically. If it didn’t, click here. Don’t want to be infected again?...
I blocked pop-ups in Pop-up Windows and denied alerts in Notifications in Safari. Now I'll allow in a couple of sites one at a time and see if it returns though only if there's as need to do that. Not sure about that. I was hoping it would be something simple and it was. Thanks guys!
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