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vickik53344335
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December 9, 2018
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fake flashplayer download

  • December 9, 2018
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I think I may have downloaded a fake flash player application after it saying something along the lines of my flashplayer being out of date. It did some weird things on my Macbook pro and I started to doubt if it was the real thing. I saw a player (not adobe - just "player") had mounted itself under my devices so I ejected it. I then noticed my safari and chrome browsers had changed search engines from google to yahoo. I updated the preferences back to google. I also noticed that whatever I had downloaded had downloaded a "clean my mac app".

Later tonight I saw a pop up box saying I had about 871 issues that needed repairing. I went into my downloads and deleted the downloads from earlier and emptied my trash.

Looking at my browsers history this is the website that initially clicked on: [links removed].

I then restarted chrome and came across these other websites that appeared as separate tabs:

[links removed]

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_maria_
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_maria_Community Manager
Community Manager
December 10, 2018

Thanks for reporting.  I'll forward this post to the fraud team to follow-up on.

I would recommend running a complete system scan (virus, malware, adware, etc) to ensure nothing is lingering.  If so, whatever software you use should provide assistance in cleaning up the system.

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