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Safari in Lion hijacked by malware

I hope someone can help...


I have the new Lion operating system and was in Safari this morning trying to find a game for my son to play. I clicked on a site and I got a pop up window from www.theconsumerwinner.com telling me to answer a survey...only option was to click ok. I did not...I force quit Safari instead. When I restarted Safari the website and popup comes back and has basically hijacked my safari. I cannot get into any of Safari's menu options...even help.


I went into the Safari folder and deleted the history from today, but it's still there. How can I get rid of this? I love my Safari...luckily I have Firefox installed for a work program, so I'm using it for now. I want my Safari back though...


Please help.


Thank you!

MacBook Pro

Posted on Jul 27, 2011 9:30 AM

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Mar 13, 2012 7:40 PM in response to kahlua021997

The issue is a simple one and there is no trojan involved here. If you close Safari when it has active windows open, when you restart Safari it reloads those same pages. Holding Shift keeps it from doing that.


There were some posts in this thread about stuff "still alive" but it isn't "still alive". Safari opened a web page, the URL is in the history. As such, it can be found with Spotlight. Clear the Safari history and it will no longer show up in Spotlight. Some of the posts in this thread are jabber; I can't tell what they were doing, what they did, or what they were even talking about.

Mar 13, 2012 8:37 PM in response to Badunit

Badunit jvonrock here, sorry for the jabber, it seems that some of the scariest problems are only a click away'


I've only had a computer for about 6yrs. and how lucky my first experience was on a Apple MacBookPro. an now with ipods,ipad, macmini blah blah. the point is I'm not alone. people all over with apple stuff are in awe and fear, dazzled an dumbed. WERE NOT ALL SAVVY. our lack of means we're probably just trying to say what we mean..we see what happens we don't know why or where ? do you remember being there ? but hey. I said 'alive' cause when I click something and it doesn't do anything it's dead , when I click an it does something it's alive.


Problem at hand 'I've had no trouble since the shift-safari deleation, no figers crossed.

glad for todays software update regardless.



Badunit you explained it perfectly , even in your 2nd paragraph of confusion / chastisement something was learned 'the world begs for simple solutions if you got em flaunt em'

Safari in Lion hijacked by malware

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