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What is Mal/JSRedir-F

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After scan I got rid of Mal/JSRedir-F but I can't find out what it is? Could some tell me what it is? can't find out how serious it is? what it did to my computer? How did i get it? what did it do all my info/log ins/passwords etc? Please explain. Thanks in advance
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    Cs wrote:
    After scan I got rid of Mal/JSRedir-F but I can't find out what it is? Could some tell me what it is? can't find out how serious it is? what it did to my computer? How did i get it? what did it do all my info/log ins/passwords etc? Please explain. Thanks in advance


    Mal/JSRedir-F is detected on web pages -- it detects javascripts embedded in web pages that are designed to redirect you to a known malicious website.  In itself it is not serious, but the websites you are redirected to are usually designed to install malware on computers through whatever means possible.  Luckily, only a few of them target OS X.

    Sophos has an entire family of detections named JSRedir, and they all detect specific kinds of Javascript redirection techniques found on web pages.  If the content was cached before it ran in your browser, SAV will prevent you from being redirected.  If it instead loads into memory first and then gets cached, you've likely already been redirected to a new web page in your browser.

    You likely got it by clicking on the wrong search result in your search engine.

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    Cs wrote:
    After scan I got rid of Mal/JSRedir-F but I can't find out what it is? Could some tell me what it is? can't find out how serious it is? what it did to my computer? How did i get it? what did it do all my info/log ins/passwords etc? Please explain. Thanks in advance


    Mal/JSRedir-F is detected on web pages -- it detects javascripts embedded in web pages that are designed to redirect you to a known malicious website.  In itself it is not serious, but the websites you are redirected to are usually designed to install malware on computers through whatever means possible.  Luckily, only a few of them target OS X.

    Sophos has an entire family of detections named JSRedir, and they all detect specific kinds of Javascript redirection techniques found on web pages.  If the content was cached before it ran in your browser, SAV will prevent you from being redirected.  If it instead loads into memory first and then gets cached, you've likely already been redirected to a new web page in your browser.

    You likely got it by clicking on the wrong search result in your search engine.

    :1005653
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