Re: Malware issue (Mac OS X)

Date	2015-08-06 06:26 -0700
From	Ant <ant@zimage.comANT>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Malware issue (Mac OS X)
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>> How can you clean any malware from an apple Mac Book.
>
> very carefully.
>
> Next time, don't run that app to install games on your machine where it
> asks your password.
>
> An engineer at work did this and it earned him a free wipe and
> re-install of the OS.  *And* I got to FB about how stupid he was to get
> his machine infected in the first place.

My friend did this too with one of those video malwares back in mid 
April 2015. I usually scan and clean up people's infected Windows 
computers, but Macs? I never had to do that. It was new to me and an 
interesting experience. You can read my 
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29993737-My-friend-s-Mac-OS-X-got-infected 
forum thread about it. ;)
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