Malwarebytes For Mac Can't Be Installed On This Disk
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My friend fell victim just now to a scam. He connected to a website in order to live-stream a hockey game.
Then a pop-up appeared, telling him that his Mac was infected and he should call a certain number, which he did. Innocently, he allowed these guys to remote in to his Mac and 'do a scan'. Then later on he was worried and called me. I connected to his Mac (using Teamviewer) and installed Malwarebytes, and ran it.
It took only two seconds or so to scan, and reported no threats. Unconvinced, I went to housecall.trendmicro.com and downloaded their scanner.
It also took only two seconds. I am not experienced with Macs. Is it possible that those two products could finish a scan of his system regardless of how much stuff he had on it, in such a short time?
Or is the malware software that I'm sure these guys installed somehow short-circuiting the malware scanning software? All they can do is file a report. They are not equipped to handle cybercrime. What he should do is contact credit reporting agencies and put a flag on his credit reports.
The agencies will be extra diligent in looking for suspicious activity. Also call the banks and credit card companies. There are many things the criminals could do when they remote in, some already mentioned. The current scam is installing a program that encrypts all of your personal documents then asks for a ransom to get them restored. Perhaps the reason that the MalwareBytes scan was so quick was because it cannot scan encrypted and locked files. Just a thought. This person needs professional help.
If I had it in front of me I would remove the hard drive, hook it up to another computer with a USB adapter, and see if I could recover the user files. Then I would format the drive, put it back in the computer and load OS X from scratch. You should call the police anyway.
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If every victim calls about cyber crime, then notes get taken. Eventually, there will be a need for police to handle this type of crime when it become prevalent enough. I suggest a system restore to reinstall the OS.
Don't bother scanning. The majority of Mac scanners still scan for Windows viruses. Those won't run on Mac anyway.
The types of things that would run on a mac are rootkit trojans that work similarly to Linux trojans and those need a rootkit scanner. He should boot into safe mode to backup data 1st, but a system restore should not delete user data. Just don't start disk utility to delete and format the partition. The system restore should remove anything that was installed as root. Once installed, he should probably also boot into safe mode and check for login items that shouldn't belong and create a 2nd account to avoid using the current account, because they could have installed other items that are 'hidden' from an average user in the command line scripts. Use the new account.