This is a component of the Genieo adware. Volumes/backups/Backups.backupdb/John’s iMac/-091715/Macintosh HD/Users/john****/Library/Application Support//Completer.app/Contents/MacOS/InstallerS
Donations are not required to use my site or software.) (Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, and, in the form of buttons allowing for donations. Also, for the future, note that if anti-virus software like Norton or ClamXav finds "malware" on your computer, do not allow that software to delete it! Instead, follow the procedures outlined here: It detects far more than Norton, and won't cause any performance or stability problems. In addition, once you have removed Norton and any adware that is installed, it wouldn't be a bad idea to download ClamXav and scan for any malware that it can detect. See my Adware Removal Guide for help finding and removing any remaining components. If it was part of some adware, you can bet that most of the adware is still installed. If you still have information about what the file was named and where it was located, that would be helpful for identifying what it was. Adware is not quite malware, but not really legit either, and coverage of adware by anti-virus software is extremely spotty. What I would guess this was is a detection of some part of some adware. So it's very unlikely that this file, whatever it was, was real malware.
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Second, any true malware that Norton would detect is already blocked by the anti-malware features in Mac OS X. You may need to re-download that installer if you no longer have it. The Norton installer will also help you uninstall it properly. Do not simply drag the Norton app to the trash. It is well-known for causing sometimes severe performance and stability problems, and its detection of Mac malware is only so-so. Even Symantec doesn't seem to understand what OSX.Malcol is, and they're the ones who created that name! (According to Symantec's site, this is a "generic detection for many individual but varied OS X Trojans for which specific definitions have not been created.")įirst and foremost, Norton is awful on the Mac.
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