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MacPro(6core) 10.12.6

I think I have been infected by 3 things at once.

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And another I can not name.

I dumped some 50% time machine files and found the location of the virus/malware I can not name. I put them all in the trash. I started emptying the trash on Wednesday night at about 10pm. It said 2.2million files to be emptied. So I switched to SafeMode to do the dump. It started doing its thing.

It kept giving me pop-ups about "file in use by X". so I had to keep watch so I could click skip or continue. It got down to 1,064,820 and froze.

Is there an ultra hard dump that will either automatically ignore/skip any file in use and dump the rest?

Is there another way to dump the trash in a more aggressive fashion?

From what you wrote it seems you placed Time Machine backup files in the Trash. Those files are protected by SIP and cannot be deleted that way.

Is there an ultra hard dump that will either automatically ignore/skip any file in use and dump the rest?

Nope. The only way to recover from putting Time Machine files in the Trash is to completely erase the Time Machine backup. If you want to delete Time Machine backup files, do it according to the following: Delete an item from your backup disk - Apple Support. Dragging files from the TM backup volume to the Trash will corrupt the backup, making it useless.

There are no viruses that affect macOS, so whatever was contained in the TM backup was nearly certain to affect Windows PCs and only Windows PCs. You (or the non-Apple "anti-virus" product) corrupted the Time Machine backup by attempting to eliminate or quarantine something that can't affect your Mac. That's a worse outcome than becoming infected by a "virus", if such a thing were to exist on Macs, which it doesn't.

Uninstall whatever non-Apple "anti-virus" product you installed in strict accordance with its instructions. As you found out nothing good comes from using worthless junk. Only misery. I'd rather have a virus.

最后更新：2017-11-10 23:29:55

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