Malwarebytes for the MAC

[owen938]

Malwarebytes for the Mac while running OS X 10.11.2, El Capitan will not load to Applications per instructions - icon keeps being rejected when attempting to move to Applications.  Is this a problem for 10.11.2 users?

[treed]

Owen,

 

No, OS X 10.11.2 should allow you to drag things to the Applications folder.

 

I assume you are dragging the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware icon from the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.dmg disk image onto the Applications folder icon shown here:

 

 

If that is correct, and it's not working, try double-clicking the Applications folder icon shown in that window. Does it open the Applications folder? If so, is Malwarebytes Anti-Malware already there?

[owen938]

No, the app is not in my App folder, and every time I try to move the Malwarebytes to the Apps folder it "bounces" back to it's place in the window.  Acting like it's already in Applications, biut a visual check doen't show it as being there.

[treed]

Open the Terminal app (found in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder). In the Terminal, paste or type the following command:

 

ls -al /

 

(Note that the command contains lowercase Ls, not the number 1.)

 

What does the line showing the Applications folder looks like? On a typical system, it should look something like this:

 

drwxrwxr-x+   99 root    admin    3366 Dec 10 12:13 Applications

[Ranger1]

Hello treed and owen 938,

 

I was alerted to "Malwarebytes for Mac" last month by my son-in-law whose profession is in commercial IT support albeit in a Windows environment.

 

I am running El Capitan 10.11.3. I downloaded the "MBAM-Mac-1.1.3.72.dmg" file and installed it into the Applications folder via the "Drag MBAM icon onto the "Applications" folder alias icon" method in the Installer window.  Perhaps some other OS X factor is at play?

 

Sincerely, Ranger1.