Mograppido flooding my iMac with Vivaldi Notifications

[rlm45]

On my iMac, High Sierra, I use Vivaldi as my browser. Started getting dozens, dozens of notifications from Mograppido.

Mograppido can happen with any browser including Safari. My Malware apps did nothing to fix this?


Just recently I am getting dozens of notifications from a malicious web site Mograppido.com. They include all types of icons from real web sites.

This is very disturbing? How did this happen? How to I stop this and remove something like from occuring again.

Comments??????

 

[pm-r]

This is very disturbing? How did this happen? How to I stop this and remove something like from occuring again.

A quick Google search certainly shows several Mac Solutions you can check out and specifically one site:
How to Remove Mograppido.com from Mac

How to Remove Mograppido.com from Mac - Malware Guide

In order to remove Mograppido.com threat from your Mac OS X, it is very important that all its related entries and associated items are removed completely. It is strongly recommended to get rid of this malware as soon as possible. The manual removal process has been broadly discussed here...

malware-guide.com

If you need the others, try this:

Google Search

It seems to be one of the newer annoyances out in the wild.
What a waste of programming time to create such crap and annoy so many people.

Anyway good luck and hope the removal works,



- Patrick
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[rlm45]

Combo Cleaner is not free and after using it to run a Malware scan it did not find anything that would cause this annoying notification. Combo cleaner flagged 5 virus files after scanning the iMac but it does not allow removal unless you buy their app. I find it really annoying that the Combo Cleaner people waste your time doing a long scan and then bait you. It would be so much better if these app people were upfront honest. Anyway, not sure any virus app handles this new annoyance. I use Malwarebytes and it finds no virus on my machine, where Combo Cleaner finds five.

Comments?

 

[pm-r]

Combo cleaner flagged 5 virus files after scanning the iMac but it does not allow removal unless you buy their app.

Then I guess you could try one of the other suggestions and see if they work or maybe download a copy of Find Any File.app that should allow you to find and delete/Trash any of the flagged items that Combo Cleaner.app flagged.

You can download Find Any File here:

Find Any File

apps.tempel.org

- Patrick
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[Rod]

You've got to wonder sometimes, at least I do, if the developers of anti malware apps and the despicable producers of malware itself are in some way linked.
When you do a search for ways to remove malicious software like Mograppido you inevitably find lots of sites claiming to have the answer but although they often include a manual method of removal they strongly suggest a removal tool (app). Their description of the manual method is usually unnecessarily complicated with the deliberate intention of putting people off in favour of downloading their suggested software which is so much easier.
To further scare users into downloading their software they include warnings like the one below.

Or;

That being said, these sites do offer a few good pointers toward what to look for; extensions or add-ons in your web browser, web history, cookies and different forms of the name to search for using eg. Find Any File.

 

[rlm45]

I have fooled around with at least 5 Mac antivirus apps. What concerns me is they all give different results. Supposed threats in one app do not show up in the other. Combo Cleaner found 5 threats that upon my investigation were hardly threats, and unless you paid Combo Cleaner you could not clear those threats.

I cleared them by navigation to the files and deleting them. These threats were old deleted emails so hardly a threat. I also have on my Mac the free Malwarebytes that basically finds nothing.

I will say that on my Windows Machines, paid for Malwarebytes really does a good job of getting those machines clear, not so on the Mac.

Supposedly, Mac's are immune to viruses so some folks say you do not need a virus app on a Mac. I am not sure I agree with that because any machine can become infected.

My opinion, is there a good antivirus app for a Mac?

Comments?

 

[pm-r]

My opinion, is there a good antivirus app for a Mac?

Several members seem to suggest and recommend Integro VirusBarrier Scanner,
but not forgetting what you are trying to remove is not actually a virus but comes under the heading of malware.

Have a look here and you might find something that works for you:

https://support.intego.com/hc/en-us

Have you tried using Find Any File.app or EasyFind.app and get it to search for anything that contains 'Mograppido'???' I would give that a try and trash anything and everything that contains that name that seems suspicious.



- Patrick
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[Rod]

+1 for Virus Barrier Scanner, it's all I use and it's free but even that is misnamed. Macs do not get viruses, by definition a virus is self replicating. That is, once in a device it spreads throughout that device and any other device connected to it via hard connections, networks even email. Malware does not do this, it needs to be deliberately attached to software or data and downloaded, usually as part of a software package eg. free apps from sites like MacUpdate.
As for the free version of Malwarebytes, I stopped using that when the original app became a "by subscription" application. I'm not sure the free version gets all of the malware "definition" updates but obviously they would suggest getting the Premium version.
In the end the manual method of locating the various parts of Mograppido and trashing them works it just takes time and patience.
It's a bit of a minefield out there and prevention is still better than cure, here is an excerpt from the Australian Government Cyber Security site;

Malware is distributed in several ways:

• By spam email or messages (either as a link or an attachment)
• By malicious websites that attempt to install the malware when you visit, by exploiting weaknesses in your software
• By masquerading as a good application you download and install yourself. Some malware even pretends to be anti-virus or security products.

​

Protect yourself by only installing the files you need and sourcing them from well known and legitimate app stores.

• Don’t download applications from third-party download sites.
• Don’t click on online ads to download applications and do use ad-blocking software.
• Don’t download and install applications from peer to peer networks – you never know who has changed the files.
• Don’t click on links in emails or instant messages, or execute attachments unless you are sure they are legitimate. Use a spam filter to protect yourself from malicious messages.
• Don’t install applications received from contacts, say via email or USB sticks, without scanning them with your anti-virus application first.

I would further add that the use of a good VPN is also helpful if you use free/public sites with no security like airports, libraries and internet cafe's to protect your IP address. Believe it or not I follow all of the above instructions now almost without thinking. It's been a long time since I've been the victim of any malware but the developers of these malicious programs continue to get smarter and staying a step ahead of them takes time, care and research.

 

[pm-r]

I'm not sure the free version gets all of the malware "definition" updates but obviously they would suggest getting the Premium version.

I still use and occasionally run an older version of Malwarebytes in its free mode, and it still checks and fetches and downloads any definition updates if there are any each time I open it to run it.

I see they just released an updated and newer version that still honours the free use aqnd manual usage, but requires at least macOS 10.12.x: Sierra to run which I do not use.

I can't recall the last time it ever found anything malicious on our Macs, and I occasionally download software from MacUpdate.com who cleaned up their contaminated downloads several years ago now, just as a by the way comment.



- Patrick
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[Randy B. Singer]

Supposedly, Mac's are immune to viruses so some folks say you do not need a virus app on a Mac. I am not sure I agree with that because any machine can become infected.

If you define "virus" as being synonymous with "malware", then anyone who says that Mac's are "immune to viruses" doesn't have a clue as to what they are talking about.

That said, there have only been roughly 150 pieces of malware for the Macintosh in the last 20 years or so. Just about all of those, at this point, either don't work, are extinct in the wild, or the Mac has been hardened against them. There is nothing that is truly malicious that is going around in the wild right now that is infecting any significant number of Macs.

Contrast this with the situation on Windows. It’s mind-numbing, but there are over A BILLION examples of malware for Windows, with over a HALF MILLION new examples arising EACH DAY!

https://dataprot.net/statistics/malware-statistics/

So, you can see why worrying about malware is a serious thing if you use Windows. Malware is a flood for Windows, compared to a couple of drips per year for the Macintosh. Folks who have come to the Macintosh from Windows bring a paranoia about malware with them. It’s a way of life for Windows users. But the Macintosh isn’t Windows, not even close.

This is why you don't need to be paranoid about malware if you use a Mac, and it's one of the big reasons to be using a Mac instead of Windows.

...is there a good antivirus app for a Mac?

There sure is...and it's FREE!

For the majority of malware I recommend:

VirusBarrier Free Edition (free)

‎Intego VirusBarrier Scanner

‎Free antivirus and malware security for your Mac! Intego Virus-Barrier Scanner can scan and remove Mac and Windows malware with a single click. VirusBarrier Scanner will detect any infected files which you might have downloaded or gotten in your inbox. This way your Mac is always kept safe and...

apps.apple.com

For adware (which isn't malicious, but which IS very annoying), I recommend:

DetectX (free)

DetectX

kicking out badware on macOS since 2014

sqwarq.com

If neither of the above get rid of Mograppido, please let us know. I can tell you how to get rid of it manually. Doing so is actually quite easy.

I also recommend jettisoning Safari, as it is highly insecure.

https://restoreprivacy.com/browser/secure/

Instead I recommend that you move to Brave, which is the most secure browser available currently.

Brave (free)
https://brave.com

Once you have moved to Brave, in Brave go to:

Brave menu —> Preferences —> Privacy and Security —> Site & Shield Settings —> Notifications —> set Don’t Allow Sites To Send Notifications

go back to Site & Shield Settings —> Popups and Redirects —> set Don't allow sites to send pop-ups or use redirects

 

[Randy B. Singer]

A bit more information about Macintosh malware.

For those of you who don’t keep up with this sort of thing, you should know that the Macintosh OS now actively scans for malware. In other words, the Mac OS itself now works just like a third party anti-virus program to protect you from malware. The Mac OS does this in macOS 10.15: “Catalina” and above. i.e., for the last four versions of the Mac OS. Have a look at:

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/08/07/last-week-on-my-mac-is-your-mac-still-secure-from-malware/

If that weren't impressive enough, just this past week Apple drastically upgraded the Mac's anti-malware capabilities AGAIN, by pushing out "Security Response" for macOS 13 "Ventura" and above. See:

https://tidbits.com/2023/05/02/what-are-rapid-security-responses-and-why-are-they-important/