Mac Avast And Mrt.app

13-05-2021
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  • Mrt.app 30 Mar, 2020 in Virus tagged malware / System tools / trojan / Virus / Viruses by webmanager MRT.app is a Malware Removal Tool developed by Apple and is sometimes detected as a false positive by third-party AV apps.
  • Apr 15, 2020  Manual Mrt.app removal from Mac OS. Deleting Mrt.app from a Mac isn’t difficult. But in addition to uninstalling the software, any leftover files will have to be removed. Access Finder – Applications. In Applications, locate Mrt.app and drag it into the trash or alternatively right-click on the program and click Move to Trash.

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Re: Avast labelling mac MRT as an infection?? « Reply #3 on: September 07, 2018, 08:37:30 PM » I had to disable Avast scanning to stop Avast from repeatedly popping up info that MacOS:Genieo-FM adware was being 'locked in the file vault.'

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What likely initiated these messages is that Avast (or AVG) antivirus on your Mac updated its virus definitions and is now flagging libswiftDispatch.dylib as a coin-mining virus and quarantining it. That's why you're getting those pings and why 1Password won't be working for you at present. Unfortunately, I don't have any good suggestions for this, since the library that Avast/AVG is flagging is part of Apple's Swift language itself -- which means 1Password is most definitely not the only application that's showing up as 'infected'; any application that uses this library -- and we've already had reports of ForkLift, Skype and other major applications -- are also affected.

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The question is: is Avast right? That's one we can't answer definitively at this point (but we're looking into). Uninstalling Avast or AVG would likely stop the issue, but if you take that step and it turns out that Swift was really infected with this coin mining virus, it would be the wrong thing to have done. That's why we (AgileBits) can't really recommend you take such action at this time.