Oh God. Now I've done it.

[Jerry®]

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:




and



And it wants me to install MacKeeper but I ddon't of course.

Help me Obi Wan Kenobi!

[ztirffritz]

Rollback your machine from your Timemachine backup to yesterday, or earlier today when this wasn't happening.

[Jerry®]

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.

[mattkime]

preferences -> extensions. there's likely something there you should remove.

[Jerry®]

mattkime wrote:
preferences -> extensions. there's likely something there you should remove.

Removed the ones I had....still no good.

[Jerry®]

The ads seem to be coming from somewhere called "Offerz4u"

[graylocks]

can you clear the safari cache, history, and (yes) reboot your machine?

[Paul F.]

Malwarebytes.com...

Just had a teacher get her laptop all bunged up by ad-ware. That flushed it right out.

[Jerry®]

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:

[Paul F.]

Great!
Now, tell your computer you're sorry, and won't do that again ;-)