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My root folder was 'locked', When i tried to click on it to open it said I didn't have permission. From there I was looking for the file var > root >. However my Macintosh HD was displaying be default in my Finder Sidebar so I first had to Open finder, Go to Finder (in the top screen bar) > Preferences > sidebar > Check Macintosh HD.ДЇrom there I picked up and followed what that article said to do to show hidden files. Followed the link BC Advisor sent above (this one: ) I'm not a programer so I used Finder to find the file. To find fix it I followed what OP and BC Advisor did. I'd go into the Advanced Proxy Setting uncheck the SOCKS Proxy, but after a little while my Google would start acting super slow again and sure enough the SOCKS proxy kept getting re-checked somehow. That I found that this SOCKS proxy was the problem. It wasn't until recently when I noticed that my Google searches were taking FOREVER to load and often just failing, but other websites when I'd go to them directly would be working fine. I knew it must be still be on my computer somewhere since it kept coming back, but I had no idea where. I'd do a spotlight search for 'Profiles' and have to remove 'MainAdviseSearch' again to fix the problem.

Every once and a while my chrome would crash again I knew it was this virus taking hold again. Once I did that my search engine would return to Google default and all would work well. Removing that with the '-'would release it's hold on my Chrome. Eventually I found out that I had to go to System Preferences > Profiles > and remove something called 'MainAdviseSearch'. It would just re-appear instantly and bet set as my default again. And it wouldn't let me change remove the new engine from in Chrome settings. I dont remember exactly, it was a couple months ago.)Д®very once and a while my chrome would randomly crash and when it opened up duck duck go would be my new default search engine.

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Pretty sure I got some sort of virus that caused this problem for me as well a while ago when I was trying to download an academic paper from a non legit source (I had to like get a special program to open it, but it was bogus. Plus, the Internet networking quit very recently, long after I upgraded the computer to 10.14.

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Its code may have been incompatible with MacOS 10.14.

Now I have to hope that nothing sensitive was stolen by this man-in-the-middle proxy trojan! I am thinking not, though, since Internet networking wouldn't work at all until I disabled the SOCKS proxy.

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Now a SOCKS proxy is not being set up anymore when the computer starts up.Д®ven with Macintosh, you gotta be careful where you surf to on the Internet! Products like Malwarebytes and others would not be available for Mac if there wasn't a problem needing a solution! It found 'mitmproxy' as well as seven other things which I promptly deleted or quarantined. I actually wound up using Malwarebytes for Mac to take care of the problem. There was a file somewhere in the system blatantly named '/var/tmp/mitmproxy', and removing this along with a number of other things fixed the problem. Its startup did not appear in the list of login items. There was a bit of malware buried in the system.

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