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Re: Finding background "malware"

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Finding background "malware"
Date 2018-06-13 16:35 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <130620181635283379%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References <pfruhi$9f5$1@panix2.panix.com>

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In article <pfruhi$9f5$1@panix2.panix.com>, Brian Gordon
<briang@panix.com> wrote:

> A repair shop I haven't used before fixed an overheting problem.  However,
> they pressed hard for another $85 to clean up "all the malware" running on my
> system that was contributing to the problem.

of course they did, because it's pure profit.
 
> I periodically run some malware detectors, but they are looking at files, not
> processes. Is there something I can run to detact these "problems"?

the 'problem' is the sleazy repair shop.

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Finding background "malware" briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2018-06-13 16:24 -0400
  Re: Finding background "malware" nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-06-13 16:35 -0400
    Re: Finding background "malware" RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2018-06-13 21:49 +0100
      Re: Finding background "malware" nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-06-13 16:52 -0400
  Re: Finding background "malware" Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-14 00:53 +0000
    Re: Finding background "malware" briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2018-06-14 02:04 +0000
      Re: Finding background "malware" Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-14 02:29 +0000
  Re: Finding background "malware" Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-06-17 18:16 +0000
    Re: Finding background "malware" gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2018-06-17 13:45 -0700

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