How to rescue your Mac from malware corruptionMalware and complete hard drive corruption on the Mac is rare, but it can happen. Here's how to rebuild your Mac.
Ah, the holidays: Good food, good conversation, and — if you're in my line of work — a healthy helping of familial tech troubleshooting.
The problem: Mac malware in the Library folder
This year's Big Tech Problem came in the form of my soon-to-be father-in-law's MacBook Pro: He'd been running into curious slowdowns for a two-year-old laptop, and kept on seeing weird sites taking over his Safari and Firefox search bars.
We got rid of the browser hijack pretty quickly — I suggest using Cella's excellent how-to if you ever run into a browser hijack yourself — but the slowdowns were more curious. Upon further investigation, I found a couple of self-professed "Mac security programs" that popped up, demanding money to "clean your Mac from junk".
Spoiler: These programs were the junk. And worst of all, they'd seemingly added a bunch of nonsense files into this c...
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How to rescue your Mac from malware corruption
