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Hey everyone. I think I have a virus on my Macbook. I accidentally installed a fake Adobe Flash Player. And immediately after I installed it I can't go to Google.com, Gmail.com, Youtube.com, Yahoo.com and god knows what else I can't get on. I have tried on Chrome and Safari, I can't access them on either.

I have downloaded and used Avast and Malwarebytes but they didn't pick anything up.
Any Ideas?
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try to roll back using time machine to see if that fixes it. hopefully you back up your mac often
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Roll back time.
If that doesn't work then take the hard drive out of the mac and plug it into a machine running a linux flavour. Download a trial version of F-secure of linux and scan the drive externally.
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KiIIshots wrote try to roll back using time machine to see if that fixes it. hopefully you back up your mac often


I don't use time machine, but I was able to fix it. I just backed up my important files and then deleted OS X and redownloaded it and now everything works fine. Thanks tho!
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Dont think its a virus. Macs don't really get them
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Squidward_Tentacles wrote Dont think its a virus. Macs don't really get them


It was a virus, and Macs do get them. They just don't get the same amount as Windows.
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Download AdwareMedic, should work
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Squidward_Tentacles wrote Download AdwareMedic, should work



I already fixed it, thanks tho.
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