Website telling you your Mac is infected.

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  1. Peter Franks, May 20, 2016
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    Peter Franks macrumors 68000

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    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"
     
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  2. keysofanxiety, May 20, 2016

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    You shouldn't be getting popups like that.

    Run MalwareBytes for Mac to remove any infections.
     
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  3. Peter Franks, May 20, 2016

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

    [​IMG]
     
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  4. keysofanxiety, May 20, 2016

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    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?
     
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  5. Mason Dulemba, May 20, 2016

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    :D
    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 :D
     
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  6. Peter Franks, May 20, 2016

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    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
     
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  7. Mason Dulemba, May 20, 2016

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    Hey Change the Name of the Title (atleast so it doesnt show up as a URL in notifications )
     
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  8. Peter Franks, May 20, 2016

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    I can only edit post text not title, but when you click on it, it opens this thread not the url anyway
     
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  9. BrianBaughn, May 20, 2016

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    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.
     
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  10. Peter Franks, May 20, 2016

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    didn't see it, thanks.
     
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