ParallelsMD.mdimporter Malware warning in MACOS 10.15.6

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I recently upgraded from 10.13.6 to 10.15.6 and now I get a routine malware warning on "
ParallelsMD.mdimporter" in the spotlight Library.

Has anyone seen this problem or know what's going on?
 
Has anyone ever found an answer to this? I just upgraded from an old Macbook Pro (2012) to a new 2023 MBP with Apple M3 Processor and Sonoma OS, and didn't see it for the first couple days after transitioning things over. Now it pops up occasionally (haven't correlated to anything yet) and always pops up a second time after acknowledging.
 
Can you please share the answer with the rest of us? I'm getting this too - on a Intel MacBook Air running Sequoia 15.3 and Parallels was uninstalled form the machine a long time ago.
 
JosephT15 said:
Can you please share the answer with the rest of us? I'm getting this too - on a Intel MacBook Air running Sequoia 15.3 and Parallels was uninstalled form the machine a long time ago.
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Hello @JosephT15
Thank you for your feedback.
Please note that the file is not malicious but it is an old component of Parallels from a past version and is no longer in use. You can delete it safely.
Kindly follow the below steps as a possible solution:
1. Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and execute the following command:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Spotlight/ParallelsMD.mdimporter
(You will need to enter your Mac password to run the command. No symbols will be shown due to security measures, so just hit the keys and use Return/Enter.)
2. Restart the Mac.
The error message problem is solved by removing the ParallelsMD.mdimporter file from the directory it is in. This is how the issue is usually solved, but the file is not a malware.
Thanks!
 
It doesn't say. It just says "malware blocked". Might be because I'm running Sequoia and this was from Parallels 17 which was uninstalled, but left this spotlight support software in place.
 
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