any one know how to get around this site www.consumersurveypanels.com ?

I had no choice in using click okay on the little window that poped up ?

It's not Safari that is the issue. If a site contains malware, if you click on an unsolicited offer, you could invite a problem.

Survey sites are notorious for malware.

I'm having the same problem. I can't get rid of the popup without clicking OK. In the meantime

I can't use safari as my webbrowser.

Just got this too

Delete library cache folder contents

Delete preference folder

Delete Safari in application folder

Restore all the above folders from earlier time machine backup.

We have stumbled into a new Safari malware that takes over menu selections.

You will be reading about this in a few days

This is scary as it rendered safari useless, completely useless 100%

I was told maybe a JAVA vulnerability.

Ok, new to Mac, but do have time machine running. Where do I find the library cache and preferrence folder? I just installed Lion this morning and almost immediately got this malware.

Are you on Lion or SL.

If Lion

http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/get-your-library-folder-back-from-the-lion/

call and report this to Apple as well. They need to know.

There is a lot of people getting this on their mac.

I called Apple and spoke to a 2 level engineer. They did not want to admit it was Malware, just a badly written app, but you are you fooling

Any way...

Deleted Cache folder contents

deleted Preference folder contents

and in Lion:

the Application Autosave folder contents.

I then deleted Safari app, and restore the app from a good early TM backbup

reboot

Fixed the problem by disconnecting the Mac from the network completely - going into safari, clicking on the stupid popup which then allowed options to be ungrayed. THEN I could clear out the cache. Now it is working.

Good, but I am cautious about clicking on dialogue boxes with only one choice.

But I am glad it worked. How did you disconnect from the network

Ensured wireless was disabled and unplugged the ethernet cable. Yes, I wasn't happy about clicking it, even disco'd from the Internet, but was stuck. All seems ok now.

i have a macbook pro, new, got it only a week ago and this same thing happened to me. sounds like some of you have already solved the problem, but i thought i'd put what i did out there. i was on the phone with apple, but i think it was a happy mistake that solved the problem.

1. get out of safari. all the way out. use Safari>Quit Safari and Apple>Force Quit>Safari if one or the other doesn't work. it also helps if you click on the tops of the pop-up/windows (if there are any) beforehand.

2. Remove the Safari icon from your dock. Empty trash (Empty trash each time you trash something right now.)

3. Go to Finder, Applications and drag your safari onto the desktop, then onto the dock. it should have a little black arrow next to it. hopefully the scam has attached itself to the shortcut. try opening safari from the shortcut or redo these steps and try opening regular safari.

4. if you do not already have Firefox, use your working safari to go to the apple website and get firefox downloaded.

5. now delete the shortcut safari's. Empty trash. Restart computer.

hope this works for you. im sorry if it doesn't. i may not have recalled the steps correctly, but in that case, i hope you play around with it and that i have set you on track to a solution.

This worked for me, thanks!

I am totaly surprised that this has not gotten more press.

Easy fix that worked for me - disconnected the ethernet cable, turned off wifi, went into Safari and cleared cache. Plugged my the ethernet cable back in and all was well.