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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1783963" data-attributes="member: 396914">JJV, there are NO viruses for macOS so you need zero antivirus software. However, as suggested, malwarebytes is a good cleanup application. When you install it, it will install as a full version, which you do not need. You will get warnings to pay them for about a month, after which it will revert to the free version, which is all that is needed. The difference is that the paid version is resident, running all the time, while the free version only runs when you run it. You don't need it running all the time, so the free is just fine.&nbsp; Another thing you might look at is a blocker like Ghostery or uBlock to stop the various trackers/beacons/redirects on a lot of sites. That's what happened to your blocked machine, you got redirected and then the system got stuck there. Ghostery and the like will block things like that from happening. I use Ghostery and have it set to block EVERYTHING.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1783963, member: 396914"] JJV, there are NO viruses for macOS so you need zero antivirus software. However, as suggested, malwarebytes is a good cleanup application. When you install it, it will install as a full version, which you do not need. You will get warnings to pay them for about a month, after which it will revert to the free version, which is all that is needed. The difference is that the paid version is resident, running all the time, while the free version only runs when you run it. You don't need it running all the time, so the free is just fine. Another thing you might look at is a blocker like Ghostery or uBlock to stop the various trackers/beacons/redirects on a lot of sites. That's what happened to your blocked machine, you got redirected and then the system got stuck there. Ghostery and the like will block things like that from happening. I use Ghostery and have it set to block EVERYTHING. [/QUOTE]

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