What do these (specific) apps do? Have they done any lasting damage? Or are they only a nuisance while installed? But I would like to know what else they did while installed *that I couldn't see. What I could see is that they were very intrusive: launching themselves, setting themselves up to re-launch on start, resetting my browser's homepage to a spoof "safe" search engine - even popping up a window when they were installed by moving to the Trash. However, I wonder what they did while they were on my machine. I followed instructions I found online for removing these apps and believe they are gone (Bitdefender's virus and malware virus scan shows no remaining malicious software). Recently I responded to a suggestion that I "upgrade Flash" on my macOS system only do end up with several applications running, and intruding into my browser and desktop that I did not (mean to) install:
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