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I got up this morning and found a big dialog box open about 'Mac Ads Cleaner' that had been installed on my system without my knowledge or approval. Has anybody else seen this??I googled for it and couldn't find anything about it, other than a site selling it. No idea at all how it got there. I quit it, removed it from Login Items, and deleted the app out of the Applications folder - which appears to have appeared there yesterday morning around 5:34 AM. I also went into Library and deleted a folder out of there with the same name. Then emptied the trash.When I emptied the trash, another pop-up box appeared 'begging' me to register Mac Ads Cleaner. This thing is acting a lot like malware.Now I'm starting to wonder if it's a good time to do that full format/reinstall I've been thinking about doing for a few months.
Worth running a full scan through MWB for Mac:There are very few points of infection on macOS, so hopefully it'll pick it up. However from what you've described, MacKeeper does the same thing when deleting it and emptying the Trash, so you may well have removed it already.If MWB picks up nothing, do you have any trace of that application left in your Applications folder? Just for your future reference, dragging a malicious app into AppCleaner is the best way to nuke it, as this gets rid of all related files. Click to expand.Honestly I'd trust the MWB application.
If it says that the 7zip unpacker & MPlayerX need to go, I'd get rid of them. The reason is that unwanted applications can have code in them that download other applications or have lots of strange side-effects. It could well have been MPlayerX that caused the issue.Read about MPX here and what it does:Which 7zip extractor do you have, please?
Just google search its name and put MalwareBytes after it. They'll likely have a blog about it and explain why you should get rid of it. There are plenty of alternatives to the above two applications which you use that are perfectly safe and work just as well!EDIT: @Phil A. Pipped me to the post! Great minds think alike.
Mac Ads Cleaner is left-over garbage from the Advanced Mac Cleaner scumware, which I stupidly downloaded attached to a fake Flash update notification. I thought I had deleted everything and the popups disappeared for a week or so. I even did the latest OSX update to 10.12.3. But today they showed up again. I have downloaded and run MWB and it did remove many files associated with the MAC and AMC crap.
Thank you very much for that suggestion. If I get any more popups in the future, I'll post a notice in this forum. Thanks again.
Click to expand.I haven't run across Mac Ads Cleaner before, but just located its website and will be taking a look at that shortly. From first glance, it looks like junk, with exactly the same user interface as a number of other PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) that we detect.
So I have little doubt that we'll add that one as well.As for 7zX, that seems to have been dropped by the developer and obtained by the Genieo folks. It's probably just fine to continue using an old copy, if you really wanted to, but since the Genieo folks are in the business of making malware, I wouldn't trust it anymore.Thomas ReedDirector of Mac Offerings, Malwarebytes. Thank you for recommending the MWB! It worked for me! My scan pulled up a whole bunch of stuff, I removed them all and restarted.I am not too savvy at all of this, and I had no idea where to look to find the malware living amongst my files.
This scanner basically locates the hard to find files, and puts them all in your trash bin. Be sure to empty the trash after you restart.After I restarted and re-scanned there were a couple more new things found, and I removed them. Looks like it's all cleaned up and I no longer get the Mac App Cleaner application pop ups, and I no longer get the Fake flash constant pop up alerts.Very helpful thank you! Thank you for recommending the MWB!
It worked for me! My scan pulled up a whole bunch of stuff, I removed them all and restarted.I am not too savvy at all of this, and I had no idea where to look to find the malware living amongst my files. This scanner basically locates the hard to find files, and puts them all in your trash bin. Be sure to empty the trash after you restart.After I restarted and re-scanned there were a couple more new things found, and I removed them. Looks like it's all cleaned up and I no longer get the Mac App Cleaner application pop ups, and I no longer get the Fake flash constant pop up alerts.Very helpful thank you! Worth running a full scan through MWB for Mac:There are very few points of infection on macOS, so hopefully it'll pick it up. However from what you've described, MacKeeper does the same thing when deleting it and emptying the Trash, so you may well have removed it already.If MWB picks up nothing, do you have any trace of that application left in your Applications folder?
Just for your future reference, dragging a malicious app into AppCleaner is the best way to nuke it, as this gets rid of all related files.