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Oh God. Now I've done it. - Jerry® - 02-23-2016
Something installed itself or rather latched itself onto Safari. These weird popover ads are appearing and sometimes when I click on text boxes (like the body of this post) Safari opens a page to some virus protection software. I've checked for odd extensions but I don't use extensions and don't see anything odd. I'm not sure what else to do? Here are some pic examples of the popover ads that show up:
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And it wants me to install MacKeeper but I ddon't of course.
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi!
Re: Oh God. Now I've done it. - ztirffritz - 02-23-2016
Rollback your machine from your Timemachine backup to yesterday, or earlier today when this wasn't happening.
Re: Oh God. Now I've done it. - Jerry® - 02-23-2016
ztirffritz wrote:
Rollback your machine from your Timemachine backup to yesterday, or earlier today when this wasn't happening.
WELL, funny you should mention that - I've been having issues with my backup drive and - long story short - can't.
Re: Oh God. Now I've done it. - mattkime - 02-23-2016
preferences -> extensions. there's likely something there you should remove.
Re: Oh God. Now I've done it. - Jerry® - 02-23-2016
mattkime wrote:
preferences -> extensions. there's likely something there you should remove.
Removed the ones I had....still no good.
Re: Oh God. Now I've done it. - Jerry® - 02-23-2016
The ads seem to be coming from somewhere called "Offerz4u"
Re: Oh God. Now I've done it. - graylocks - 02-23-2016
can you clear the safari cache, history, and (yes) reboot your machine?
Re: Oh God. Now I've done it. - Paul F. - 02-23-2016
Malwarebytes.com...
Just had a teacher get her laptop all bunged up by ad-ware. That flushed it right out.
Re: Oh God. Now I've done it. - Jerry® - 02-23-2016
Paul F. wrote:
Malwarebytes.com...
Just had a teacher get her laptop all bunged up by ad-ware. That flushed it right out.
YES!!!!!! Worked like a charm! Thank you!!!!!
miley-excited001:
Re: Oh God. Now I've done it. - Paul F. - 02-23-2016
Great!
Now, tell your computer you're sorry, and won't do that again ;-)