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<blockquote data-quote="Aqua" data-source="post: 1474579" data-attributes="member: 37545"><p>Sounds similar to what PC Magazine used to do years ago (On a MicroSoft computer tho), and some of those <em>'Clean up your Mac'</em> programs. This could have happened via a 'fake' adobe link which your computer should have been protected from (flashback and it's malware, not a virus) via mac software updates, although I have heard that there have been variants. If by chance you were duped into downloading it, altho Lion from what I read has Gatekeep(?) which is supposed to make it even more difficult for malware to launch. I don't tend to download flash or Java updates from the web and wait for it to come through 'Software Update. Take a look through your app folder and also 'System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Items and make sure you know the programs are what they say they are.</p><p></p><p>This site <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/30/securing-your-mac-a-guide-for-reasonable-people-version-1-0/" target="_blank">Securing Your Mac: A Guide for Reasonable People, Version 1.0 | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog</a> gives some good advice</p><p></p><p>Good Luck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aqua, post: 1474579, member: 37545"] Sounds similar to what PC Magazine used to do years ago (On a MicroSoft computer tho), and some of those [I]'Clean up your Mac'[/I] programs. This could have happened via a 'fake' adobe link which your computer should have been protected from (flashback and it's malware, not a virus) via mac software updates, although I have heard that there have been variants. If by chance you were duped into downloading it, altho Lion from what I read has Gatekeep(?) which is supposed to make it even more difficult for malware to launch. I don't tend to download flash or Java updates from the web and wait for it to come through 'Software Update. Take a look through your app folder and also 'System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Items and make sure you know the programs are what they say they are. This site [url=http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/30/securing-your-mac-a-guide-for-reasonable-people-version-1-0/]Securing Your Mac: A Guide for Reasonable People, Version 1.0 | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog[/url] gives some good advice Good Luck [/QUOTE]
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