![]() ![]() ![]() It'd be nice to be able to scan this drive and remove that malware while in target disk mode. Taking a quick peek, I can already see MacKeeper, 'chumsearch.sh', MegaBackup, etc. I've put it in target disk mode, and attached to my machine. Assisting someone with a Mac that won't boot. So, although we'll probably support this at some point in the future, it's not a high priority and it'll probably only work within certain parameters to avoid damaging sensitive data. You might not even know it's wrecked until you need to restore something from it and can't. Although both terms are frequently used in correspondence, malware and viruses are distinct. It does not remove anything important from your Laptop and enables you to double-check documents when deleting them. It's never a good idea to start messing with your backups, and if you were to remove something from a Time Machine backup using third-party software - or even manually removed something using the Finder or the Terminal - that will wreck your backups. Malwarebytes is entirely safe for your Mac, so there is nothing to worry about. Second, one of the most common places that antivirus programs find malware, and that people want to scan for malware, is in backups. Especially since malware that might be on an external drive cannot get installed on a Mac, via any currently known method, by simply connecting the drive to the computer. That's simply not an issue in this day and age where everything malicious on Macs is designed to be downloaded and explicitly opened by the user. First, malware almost never gets onto a Mac from an external hard drive.
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