Pesky pop up on an iMac

[harry the cat]

I've had iMac's for a number of years without any problems. I run Clean my Mac and Gemini regularly to tidy up files and keep it 'clean'. The last few days I've got a pop up threatening emergency shutdown on the background of the Mac settings icon. I've run through all the clean up processes and it isn't identified /deleted. It doesn't seem to be causing any issues unless I click on it but I'd like to find and remove it.

Never had this issue before with a Mac. Any suggestions welcome.

 

[sanqhar]

Might help if you said what operating system you are running.

Some ideas here re another Mac pop up problem:

Apple Security Alert pop up on Mac

See the Apple Security Alert error on your Mac? Know what to do next when and how to fix it you encounter this pop up.

helpcenter.trendmicro.com

tom

 

[harry the cat]

Might help if you said what operating system you are running.

tom

Fair point. Sonoma 14.0. Just updated to it this week.

 

[Deleted account 251212001]

I posted on this on another thread, try safari then settings, websites, notifications, delete whatever is there

 

[Deleted account 251212001]

And dont click on the notification!

 

[harry the cat]

Might help if you said what operating system you are running.

Some ideas here re another Mac pop up problem:

Apple Security Alert pop up on Mac

See the Apple Security Alert error on your Mac? Know what to do next when and how to fix it you encounter this pop up.

helpcenter.trendmicro.com

tom

Thanks. Did that. Found one that said security alert and outed it.

 

[harry the cat]

I posted on this on another thread, try safari then settings, websites, notifications, delete whatever is there

Thanks. Did that. Fingers crossed one or other of the suggestions will have sorted it. Time will tell.

 

[er-minio]

Also don't use Clean My Mac and stuff like that, they do more harm than anything.

 

[harry the cat]

Also don't use Clean My Mac and stuff like that, they do more harm than anything.

Can you expand on that?

 

[er-minio]

Can you expand on that?

It might have changed in recent versions of the app, but in the past I've seen in on a couple of computer and seemed a bit of bloatware.
There is not much (yet) that much harmful on Mac to suggest that you have to install defenders or other software that scans the computer in the background.

If you are using Clean my Mac to save disc space, one very good option is OmniDisk sweeper, that will give you a breakdown of what is on your hard drive. You can easily locate and remove (if needed) larger files. You need to have a basic understanding of what you are looking at.

Without downloading and installing any questionable software, your Mac will be fairly ok most of its time.
I've had to remote manage both my parents' MacBooks over the last few years and we never had any major issues. They also do not download and install any extraneous software - so that generally helped.
Most Mac apps are now notarised, can only be obtained via the App store (that is both a curse and a blessing) so that alone sort of makes it a bit "safer", even though, I admit I've seen some very sub-par software being peddled through the App store over time.


I would say that clean my mac is one of various software utilities that popped up in the Mac space after the big "switch" campaign ages ago.
Suddenly a lot of windows users jumped on the MacOs platform and some software houses were quick to make some profit creating these sort of apps that were a bit more of a standard in the Windows world.

 

[harry the cat]

It might have changed in recent versions of the app, but in the past I've seen in on a couple of computer and seemed a bit of bloatware.
There is not much (yet) that much harmful on Mac to suggest that you have to install defenders or other software that scans the computer in the background.

If you are using Clean my Mac to save disc space, one very good option is OmniDisk sweeper, that will give you a breakdown of what is on your hard drive. You can easily locate and remove (if needed) larger files. You need to have a basic understanding of what you are looking at.

Without downloading and installing any questionable software, your Mac will be fairly ok most of its time.
I've had to remote manage both my parents' MacBooks over the last few years and we never had any major issues. They also do not download and install any extraneous software - so that generally helped.
Most Mac apps are now notarised, can only be obtained via the App store (that is both a curse and a blessing) so that alone sort of makes it a bit "safer", even though, I admit I've seen some very sub-par software being peddled through the App store over time.


I would say that clean my mac is one of various software utilities that popped up in the Mac space after the big "switch" campaign ages ago.
Suddenly a lot of windows users jumped on the MacOs platform and some software houses were quick to make some profit creating these sort of apps that were a bit more of a standard in the Windows world.

Thanks. I've found it quite useful in clearing duplicates and unwanted files off the hard drive. Unlike things like Norton it doesn't seem to take up a lot of space or slow things down. It also has the advantage that so far it hasn't been too intrusive or wasted too much of my time.

Having said that the pop up did sneak through so it certainly isn't perfect.