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THand30 Author

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Akamaid.net Removal

About 5 days ago I was on my Mac and I went to Google something on Safari and when I typed something in to Google and hit enter it redirected me to a Akamaid.net page. I did some research and was then able to find a application that I didn't think looked right. Deleted it and everything went back to normal. And I was using it just fine but then yesterday it came back, and I can't seem to find any odd applications or any odd folders on my Mac. I do schoolwork on here so I do download Microsoft Word and Excel documents on here from what my Prof sends to the class as well as watch YouTube. Don't know if that is what caused it but I'm sick and tired of this. It's also on my Google Chrome as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.

MacBook

Posted on May 3, 2020 8:41 AM

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Eric Root

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Posted on May 3, 2020 9:54 AM

You have adware/malware installed. Download this program which was written by Thomas Reed, a long time poster. The program will search for malware/adware The program will do the work for you which makes it easy. It may be necessary to run more than one scan. After scanning a couple of times, restart the computer and test.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac 10.10 and later

Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions, uninstall any you don't recognize, and then turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.

Safari/Preferences/General - see what the Home Page is set to. If something you don't recognize, see if you can replace it with something you want.

Safari menu/Clear History.

System Preferences and remove any Profiles you see.

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