MyBrowserBar error assistant

You have been hit with adware. See this site for how to remove.

The Safe Mac » Adware Removal Tool

http://www.thesafemac.com/art/

Here is an example of how you got hit with this.

Mixstr --

Yes, do use Thomas Reed's Safe Mac advice on how to get rid of malware.

(It's always nice to give attribution credit, Diane).

It usually always does the trick.

Just to be clear EtreCheck is a great little app, developed by a great contributor here.. The problem is that if you download it from the CNET site (and some other general apps places like MacUpdate, etc, they actually can sneak other stuff in without most people noticing. It's best to take an extra minute to find out who the developer is, and get downloads from the original source. In Etre's case, click here for a safe download.

There may be, buy CNET is not one of them. You're much safer downloading directly from the developer.

Safest option is the developer's site.

You can try http://www.macupdate.com

AFAIK they are not wrapping installers with adware. BUT.... they let advertisers you should avoid on their site. The forums are full of users with computers that no longer work correctly after running these so call 'cleaners' (Memory Clean, CleanMyMac, Washing Machine and MacKeeper). Do not install any third party so-called Mac cleaning utilities. They can do harm to your Mac.

It pays to be very careful when installing to check what is actually being installed.

Softpedia is another site to avoid.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by giving credit. What in addition to the link should I have mentioned?

The image was mine. After blogging about this, CNET now sends users to his site to download instead of offering it directly.

diane --

You have referred many people to the SafeMac site, which was put together as a public service by Thomas Reed, a great contributor here. When I link someone work, like Kurt Lang's Font "Bible" I always include his name. It's just a nice thing to do, that's all.

CNET was contacted by John Daniels, the developer, asking them to cease and desist providing his download, with sneaky and several crapola things, like Genio. I know because I downloaded from there. It took me two days to finally realize what happened and then get rid of the darn stuff. So now, I always download directly from the developer. It's not worth going anywhere else, in my opinion.

All the best.

I'm in the process of learning everyone's name. I'll do my best to include the name in the link. No one ever attributed links on the Microsoft forums where I have lived for the past 15 years.

Thanks for the explaination.

Well, that makes a lot of sense. We're much more genteel over here, LOL.

There are a lot more people answering questions here too. There are 11 (at my last count) Mac MVPs left world wide now. Hardly anyone else will volunteer to answer questions on the Microsoft forums.