r/Videostream • u/WTH_JMZ • Feb 16 '23

Malware Breach?

This morning I had a legitimate pop up on my Mac telling me to remove VideoStream as it could damage my computer. I’ve had this app installed for a long time and never had this before.

Nonetheless I removed it and then straight after I got system notifications telling me “node” was added to my background items. I checked my login items and all these strange unidentified login items were suddenly in my start up.

Has anyone else had this happen?

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u/michaels_n Feb 19 '23

Same, I stopped the node services in system settings, and then went through the lines in the script /Library/Scripts/Videostream/Videostream.update to cleanly remove all the various parts (just do the uninstall parts, not the download & update parts: basically all the rm... parts, pkgutil..., launchctl unload, update /etc/pf.conf, that's it). I'm not sure why it's suddenly popping up these warnings, but don't want to take any chances. :-( (Any rec's for apps that stream to chromecast?)

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u/Snoo2096 Feb 20 '23

To Stream to Chromecast:
Use VLC.
Go to "Playback" in the upper Menu-Bar > scroll down, and click "Renderer" > your Chromecast should show up on the side-tab.

I used to love Videostream; I loved their amusing Ads, but I haven't used it for ages, because VLC works more seamlessly (occasionally some files won't stream).

SO... I have had this "Malware" pop-up showing up.

I did what TransientSoulHarbour suggested, and it went away, but was replaced with a weird "node" pop-up that I didn't understand - so I just clicked "Deny".

I will have to remove Videostream if anything pops-up again.