"google-analytics" virus? Malware? Help!

HI,

There are no Mac viruses and it's not malware. Repairing disk permissions, uninstalling then reinstalling Flash, using OpenDNS... and possibly removing you ad blocker
should make a difference.




Uninstall then reinstall the newest version of Flash.

Uninstall Flash

Install Flash 10.1

Now repair disk permissions...

Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.

Also, from the Safari Menu Bar click Safari/Preferences, select the Security tab. Click Show Cookies. Delete the cookies related to the sites you have trouble accessing. Relaunch Safari.

You can avoid redirects by using Open DNS - Free/Basic

And your ad blocker may be causing incompatibility issues after updating to Safari 5. Check the vendor site for help to uninstall it. Relaunch Safari.


















Carolyn 🙂

Message was edited by: Carolyn Samit

HI,

Install the v10.6.3 v1.1 Combo Update

That might make a difference. It's ok to do this even if you aren't already running v10.6.3








🙂

Repair disk permissions one more time BEFORE trying to install the combo update.






🙂

Maybe a screenshot or movie of the error in question ?

Does it happen when you go to a certain site ? What steps do you need to take to reproduce it ? Does it happen when you use a different Browser ?

Can you open Network Utility and do a traceroute to googleapis.com ?

The only thread I could find relevant to it is :

http://forums.ipbfree.com/index.php?showtopic=7686

Say something about blocking script permissions from googleapis.com being the cause of the error

Message was edited by: Hone Melgren

Scott --
Have you deleted all Google cookies
As well as the Gugle ones?

Myself, I would delete every single one of those cookies,
look around at the Autofill settings, and delete everything Google.

It's likely that a DNS redirect is at work here - since gugle.com surely has no connection with Google.

yep, something's definitely going on, andy!

Tried Google's open DNS ?

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Hi

you surely can use their dns numbers, it's just the extra services that won't work, yes?. Anyway, plenty of people have a dynamic ip address, some change very frequently.

really tho, the way they imply that you gotta sign up these days, stinks a bit & I'd use someone else.

Find a nice quick one at http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

opendns say it'll work despite the ip address being connected to someone else.

http://www.opendns.com/support/article/314