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Dec 11, 2014 1:06 PM in response to John Mcwilliamsby Michael Guthrie1,Just got this same thing, and I have never seen the likes of this before in the my long years of mac computing. Seems like no one here uses anything but safari to browse. This got a hold of all browsers, and it really loves firefox. I even trashed and replaced firefox, and it still comes back and takes over. Freaks me out. Can't seem t find it. I was installing a "Java update" from the antichrist known as Downloads.com. They should be put in jail.
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Dec 11, 2014 1:34 PM in response to Michael Guthrie1by Kurt Lang,Besides illegal torrent downloads, sites like C|Net and Softpedia is where most of the adware garbage is coming form. You do install the app you want to try, but it also installs the adware. Sometimes there's a notice you can check a box on to prevent it from doing that. Other times, even if you do specifically say you don't want the "great extras" installed, it installs them anyway.
I will at times go to these sites so I can find a lot of similar software I'm looking for in one place, but I will NOT download them from these sites. Once I have the name of the software I want to try, I find the web site of the vendor who writes the software and get it directly from them.
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Dec 16, 2014 7:02 PM in response to Calcoholicby david_sc_1984,Just did Linc Davis's original steps on Chrome and it seems to have worked. Thanks!
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Jan 3, 2015 5:53 AM in response to Linc Davisby itsguud,I found out that the MPlayer was downloaded to my machine exactly when this issue started happening for me on chrome.
I tried the steps you listed but it didn't remove anything. So I went to the downloads folder where this program was still sitting and moved it to trash. It seems to have worked, although I worry that did not remove the program entirely?
(Edit) this only worked temporarily. Apparently it is happening when I try to use Reddit enhancement sweet now, this is the link it redirects me to:
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Jan 3, 2015 6:17 AM in response to itsguudby PATRICKMELE,Try using this http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php
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Jan 5, 2015 12:58 AM in response to Linc Davisby mindy60,Hi Linc, I did have mplayerx.dmg because it was in my downloads dated today. But i did not see any of those files in the library. What has changed? Why can't I see them? What should I do now? Please advise, thank you.
EDIT:
These folders in the Library folder have today's dates and times, if that matters. I didn't touch anything in dropboxes, keychains, or printers, and don't remember changing applications support. There are files in each of these folders that have been changed but I didn't see anything that would look suspicious.
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Jan 5, 2015 3:54 AM in response to mindy60by mindy60,Well what I did was restore each of those folders dated today and restored them from time machine from the point before the changes and so far things seem okay. Some files didn't exist in the backups so I just deleted them. And there was nothing in the cache folder in my backups so according to an article online it said it was safe to delete the cache folder so I did. Then I shut down my machine. So far things seem stable but we'll see. But the files mentioned in the post that helped everybody else weren't there.
Time machine didn't appear to be set up so I followed the prompts and it was setting up. Fortunately my backups were still there.
Good luck folks, and good luck to me.
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Feb 14, 2015 9:24 AM in response to Linc Davisby Daza79,Linc Davis you absolute legend, had this trogen for sometime now, been racking my brains deleting everything lol, done step by step of what you have described and bang ...... Back on ... Happy days :-D so thank you :-)
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Feb 16, 2015 6:27 AM in response to icamenscicby Michael Guthrie1,I have had various issues with everything mentioned. Adwaremedic did not resolve this. When I boot and open the first window in Chrome, the bing/trvoli screen comes up once. Once I close it, then chrome is back in control. I had to remove FireFox completely because it would take over no matter what. Have tried everything I have seen on this and other threads. Anyway, I am living with this until something comes along to help. I appreciate everyone in this thread assisting to rid this. It's good to know we have a community.
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Feb 16, 2015 6:42 AM in response to icamenscicby MacBirdAir,Hello. You will need this program that is safe to use. It was made by the owner of the safe Mac. The program is called adware medic download it from here
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Feb 16, 2015 6:55 AM in response to Linc Davisby MacBirdAir,AdwareMedic Will Take Care Of The Problem
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Feb 16, 2015 6:46 AM in response to MacBirdAirby Michael Guthrie1,Did you not read my post, or is this an automated ad post (which I really hope it is not)?
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Feb 16, 2015 6:48 AM in response to MacBirdAirby Barney-15E,You don't have to download anything if you don't want to.
Thomas provides instructions for manual removal on his website. Adware Medic is just the automation of those instructions.
Also, Apple has removal instructions for many of the common Adware: Remove unwanted adware that displays pop-up ads and graphics on your Mac - Apple Support
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