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Many Mac users believe that they won’t need to worry about their Macs get viruses, but is that true? Do apple computers get viruses? A few years ago, a malware named “Flashback” infected 600,000 Macs, so your Mac can definitely get viruses.
For basic Mac users, you may not know how to tell if there are viruses on your Mac, so in this guide, we are going to show you a Safe & Easy way to check if your Mac has a virus.
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The Tool We Use to Tell If Your Mac Has a Virus
MacClean is a nice, smart, and easy-to-use OS X optimizing tool that works on all Mac computers: MacBook, MacBook Pro/Air, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro, etc.
- It keeps your Mac away from Malware, Trojan, Spyware, Worms, Scareware, AdWare as well as all kinds of viruses.
- It offers you three scan modes: Quick Scan, Full Scan, and Custom Scan.
- It also finds out and removes malicious cookies to protect your privacy.
- It is capable of clearing junk files from Mac like Internet junks, user junks, system junks, development junks, and more.
How to Tell If Your Mac Has a Virus with MacClean – 3 Steps
Step 1. Free download MacClean, run it on your Mac.
Step 2. On the left side menu, choose Security Issue. You can select Quick Scan, Full Scan, or Custom Scan (select a folder to scan). Click Scan to start.
How to Tell If Your Mac Has a Virus – Step 2
Step 3. If there are viruses on your Mac, MacClean will list them. You can locate, quarantine, or delete them as you need.
Note: If this is the first time you use the 'Security issue' of MacClean, you need to download and install the security database in “MacClean Update” section.
Update Security Database of MacClean
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The Bottom Line
That’s all for how to tell if your Mac has a virus. With MacClean, you can optimize, speed up, and secure your Mac computer with ease. Now download it and have a free trail. Any question on this guide is welcomed, and you can leave a comment below.
If your Mac seems to be running at high fan rates or you’re seeing reduced battery-life for no apparent reason, you may want to check for some Mac malware that seems to be going around …
A couple of support threads have described people finding a process called mshelper using a lot of CPU usage.
From the little that’s known about it so far, it seems this is either adware or a cryptocurrency miner. Despite the heading in the Reddit thread, there’s no evidence that it’s a virus, so the most likely explanation for its spread is a sketchy download which installs it alongside some other app.
You can check for it by launching Activity Monitor and then clicking on the CPU tab to sort by highest CPU usage. Look for a process called mshelper at or close to the top.
If you find it, killing the process doesn’t help as it restarts itself. But you can remove it by deleting two files:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.pplauncher.plist
/Library/Application Support/pplauncher/pplauncher
It’s likely that Apple will add mshelper to the macOS blacklist shortly to disable it, but the above will reportedly resolve it in the meantime.
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