Website telling you your Mac is infected.

[Peter Franks]

Anyone had this come up yet telling them their mac is infected with a virus and wants to run a scan?

Only thing is, usually these addresses bring up loads of scam warnings on Google, This only brings up one, that says it's 100% safe on Scam Adviser.

It isn't! It's obviously a scam when you press the scan button. Don't!

"apple.com-securednotice.com"

 

[keysofanxiety]

Anyone had this come up yet telling them their mac is infected with a virus and wants to run a scan?

Only thing is, usually these addresses bring up loads of scam warnings on Google, This only brings up one, that says it's 100% safe on Scam Adviser.

It isn't! It's obviously a scam when you press the scan button. Don't!

You shouldn't be getting popups like that.

Run MalwareBytes for Mac to remove any infections.

 

[Peter Franks]

I know I shouldn't... but I did

 

[keysofanxiety]

I know I shouldn't... but I did

I'm not doubting you get them. It's likely you've got something on the system causing the problem -- unwanted add-ons, or PUPs like MacKeeper.

Does the problem persist after running MalwareBytes?

 

[Mason Dulemba]

I know I shouldn't... but I did

I know it can be very tempting sometimes my customers fall for it just follow the advice the men gave above (Never Never believe your mac has a virus even if it does don't believe it) {sorry I just had to [obviously kidding about the whole macs never have viruses thing]. OK now for some real Help Never NEVER click on something that says you have a virus if its not a program that you've installed such as anti virus (not a pop up in chrome ) , If you dont have any anti virus then you should never click on any thing that says Virus found.....

Good luck

 

[Peter Franks]

Thanks guys for your help. I know you'll probably say this is part of my problem.... but..... I'm still running Snow Leopard, hence your Malwarebytes won't run on it. I'll run Clam

 

[Mason Dulemba]

Hey Change the Name of the Title (atleast so it doesnt show up as a URL in notifications )

 

[Peter Franks]

I can only edit post text not title, but when you click on it, it opens this thread not the url anyway

 

[BrianBaughn]

There's a similar thread on this. The base domain in the title URL is "com-securednotice.com", which was registered three days ago. "apple.com-securednotice.com" is a subdomain of that domain.

 

[Peter Franks]

didn't see it, thanks.