MacBook Air got VIRUS???

[Zhanlun Liang]

Hey there. My MacBook Air suddenly appear a website call 'MacKeeper' and it said 'Your Mac might be infected by the latest viruses. If you do not remove them, they may
damage your system files and slow down your internet browsing speed.'  .  And it want me to download a app call 'MacKeeper' to remove all potential viruses immediately.

 

Is this real and I need to download that app?

 

Thanks ! ! !

[HPWebcamAble]

Short Answer: No

[Aytex]

5 minutes ago, Zhanlun Liang said:

Hey there. My MacBook Air suddenly appear a website call 'MacKeeper' and it said 'Your Mac might be infected by the latest viruses. If you do not remove them, they may
damage your system files and slow down your internet browsing speed.'  .  And it want me to download a app call 'MacKeeper' to remove all potential viruses immediately.

 

Is this real and I need to download that app?

 

Thanks ! ! !

god no..

[failblox]

Stop visiting sketchy websites. Problem solved.

Or get adblock and disable popups in your browser's settings.

[Zhanlun Liang]

1 minute ago, failblox said:

Stop visiting sketchy websites. Problem solved.

Or get adblock and disable popups in your browser's settings.

Hmmm....How to get adblock on Safari?

 

Thanks ! ! !

[failblox]

4 minutes ago, Zhanlun Liang said:

Hmmm....How to get adblock on Safari?

 

Thanks ! ! !

https://extensions.apple.com/

[ddrkreature]

Sketchy web sites do that all the time. I remember getting pop ups on some sites where it would show something that looked like the my computer screen and a program scanning files, then showing a result saying something to the tone of a couple hundred infected files. The red flag: it was depicting win XP when I was running 7. Get yourself adblock and try and avoid those sites in the future. But your computer should be fine

[Sevro]

There is some malware on Mac, mostly bundled with video/audio converters (or other software), this malware will spam you with ads which most of the time try to get you to install Mackeeper. But it's also totally possible that you just get them from using some sketchy websites.

 

Just to be sure, you can do a quick scan with Malwarebytes for Mac, it's free for home use and scanning takes like 1 minute, get it here: https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/ It wont run/scan on the background, just let it run, remove what it found (if any) and then you can close the application.

[Catastrophe114]

Its Adware. Forget about it. App cleaner and Malwarebytes are the only 2 problems needed to clean up your MAC. Everything else is built into the OS.

[iUSEMAC]

The biggest adware/malware applications are the programs which claim to clean your mac.