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User profile for user: wimber70
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Virus in Mac?

Hello everyone, I hope you’ve got a great day.


Today I bought my first Mac. A MacBook Air, and I think I was too excited checking everything that accidentally get in a suspicious page in safari that download a document even more suspicious. My first thought of course: virus. So with my little or none experienced using Mac I tried delete it, but just I was in about to install it with which I got deleting by complete. But my question still being the same. “The virus” is still there o should I reset the Mac by new?


Thank you for your help.


Posted on Nov 30, 2019 9:44 PM

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User profile for user: K Shaffer
K Shaffer
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Posted on Dec 1, 2019 2:13 AM

The macOS is nearly immune to most issues by superior design and preventative effort.


And there are no viri involved; web sites could cause issue due to how you browse the

web. Your settings and choices can arrive at untoward content; more often those may

be bogus pages, and you'd remove them from browser history and clear caches, etc.


The browser is not the system; kinds of things that may affect the macOS might be adware

or malware; or certain items that you would have to install yourself and disable protections.


A modern macOS newer than High Sierra 10.13.6 would be most immune to PC-like issues.

However said, users (through extra effort) perhaps may disable system integrity protection.

I've been careful when using web browsers and decidedly choose to avoid questionable

content; and do not disable built in protections. ~ Odds your Mac has a virus are next to 0.



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User profile for user: K Shaffer
K Shaffer
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Dec 1, 2019 2:13 AM in response to wimber70

The macOS is nearly immune to most issues by superior design and preventative effort.


And there are no viri involved; web sites could cause issue due to how you browse the

web. Your settings and choices can arrive at untoward content; more often those may

be bogus pages, and you'd remove them from browser history and clear caches, etc.


The browser is not the system; kinds of things that may affect the macOS might be adware

or malware; or certain items that you would have to install yourself and disable protections.


A modern macOS newer than High Sierra 10.13.6 would be most immune to PC-like issues.

However said, users (through extra effort) perhaps may disable system integrity protection.

I've been careful when using web browsers and decidedly choose to avoid questionable

content; and do not disable built in protections. ~ Odds your Mac has a virus are next to 0.



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