How to remove Mac Auto Fixer virusIf you find yourself facing a suspicious pop up on your screen about updating Mac Auto Fixer, you've come to the right place.
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You might recall that a few months ago I got to spend some time removing MacKeeper from a Mac. Then last week, the call came from downstairs where my spouse was using her Mac. From the sound of her voice, I was sure it wasn't good.
Allow me to paraphrase.... "Something just popped up on my screen about an automatic update." It didn't take long to figure out that an app named Mac Auto Fixer was that something and that my spouse didn't install it.
This all sounded suspiciously like a number of other software products that (1) show up on a Mac, seemingly out of thin air, (2) offer to do one thing, but (3) might do something else.
Mac Auto Fixer advertises itself on its website as a "Cleanup Utility for Mac".
So I deleted the app, took a look around in the usual places in the home folder (Application Support, Launch Daemons, LaunchAgent...
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How to remove Mac Auto Fixer virus
