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"Security Center" warning locks up laptop
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1922952" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Pop-up ads in Safari shouldn't be locking your whole Mac up, even if they are scammy ones. You certainly should be running an ad blocker, but even those can be scammy in their own regard. Some started taking payment from advertisers to NOT block their ads! I use AdGuard for Mac myself. MacInWin may have something else he likes.</p><p></p><p>You should also consider ditching MalwareBytes. It used to be recommended here, but today it's largely considered to be intrusive and problematic. It may even be the actual reason your Mac locks up when that ad appears. There's not much real GOOD reason to have AV software running on a Mac today anyway, at least not persistently. I think it's fine to have one as a "second opinion" to run once in a while, but not running and scanning everything you do all day every day. VirusBarrier is held in high regard, as is DetectX.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1922952, member: 38864"] Pop-up ads in Safari shouldn't be locking your whole Mac up, even if they are scammy ones. You certainly should be running an ad blocker, but even those can be scammy in their own regard. Some started taking payment from advertisers to NOT block their ads! I use AdGuard for Mac myself. MacInWin may have something else he likes. You should also consider ditching MalwareBytes. It used to be recommended here, but today it's largely considered to be intrusive and problematic. It may even be the actual reason your Mac locks up when that ad appears. There's not much real GOOD reason to have AV software running on a Mac today anyway, at least not persistently. I think it's fine to have one as a "second opinion" to run once in a while, but not running and scanning everything you do all day every day. VirusBarrier is held in high regard, as is DetectX. [/QUOTE]
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