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I tried to look at a website this afternoon that shows on-line sales flyers.
First it was all OK, then clicking on a flyer of a local drugstore. I got the screen I attached and the Mac essentially locked up.
Does anyone know if this is legit ftom Apple or some other actor trying to get personal info.
I figured this was easy to get rid off by turning off the Mac (via the power button) and rebooting, but no - that message came right back.
I eventually booted into my admin account which worked.
Went to the application folder and moved the FireFox application to the trash and booted normally - that worked (and that's the way I'm posting)
I then ran malwarebytes and also VirusBarrier, but they both came up clean.
But all my bookmarks and passwords are saved on FF, so I downloaded a new copy of FF from the web, installed it, expecting that to "fix" this issue - but no - it's right back again.
Has anybody come across this before?
PS: I'm on a 2012 MacMini running macOS 10.14 with the latest issue of FF for that OS
First it was all OK, then clicking on a flyer of a local drugstore. I got the screen I attached and the Mac essentially locked up.
Does anyone know if this is legit ftom Apple or some other actor trying to get personal info.
I figured this was easy to get rid off by turning off the Mac (via the power button) and rebooting, but no - that message came right back.
I eventually booted into my admin account which worked.
Went to the application folder and moved the FireFox application to the trash and booted normally - that worked (and that's the way I'm posting)
I then ran malwarebytes and also VirusBarrier, but they both came up clean.
But all my bookmarks and passwords are saved on FF, so I downloaded a new copy of FF from the web, installed it, expecting that to "fix" this issue - but no - it's right back again.
Has anybody come across this before?
PS: I'm on a 2012 MacMini running macOS 10.14 with the latest issue of FF for that OS