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chickashnaz Author

Level 1

36 points

ANNOYING MACKEEPER TABS AND POPUP ADS

Hi there,

I bought a new macbook air 2 weeks ago, all has been well and good (new to mac products, always for android, still am).

Safari has also been good, as well as chrome, but as of recently, this whole "MacKeeper", "Zeobit.com" **** is completely taking over my search engines etc, problems including:

- Clean up mac ads everywhere, as well as the typical "Get a new iPhone 5' rubbish

- When clicking on links, my top sites tab shows up as well as the typical "MacKeeper" download page in another. I can only open links by pressing command to open in new tabs, however my top sites tab opens as well as the Mackeeper download page, along with it's fling annoying ads

- Ads as well before relevant google search links, like "Pages related to...." With zeobit.com on every inch of my ******* screen

Note that:

- I HAVE NOT downloaded anything to do with mackeeper, so uninstalling programs etc is unnecessary information - purely mackeeper tab and popup annoyances

- I have TRIED to 'restart' safari and remove cache, nothing works

- I have done the whole system preferences, privacy, remove all website data (which this zeobit.com **** is listed), and I remove zeobit.com but it just goes back on the list when I go through this process again

- Yes I have 'block popup ads' ticked

Can someone give me a solution to removing these popups with anything to do with zeobit.com and fling mackeeper which doesn't require me to read a long page of information? I'm about to smash my screen in here.

Posted on Jul 10, 2014 4:48 AM

341 replies

thomas_r.

Level 7

32,001 points

Jul 13, 2014 6:54 AM in response to chickashnaz

chickashnaz wrote:

Hiya,

I'm on my way to downloading the removal tool, however I'm faced with "Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers".

Apologies for sounding dense, however where do I go to change this preference so I can download?

Go re-download it and try again. I finally got a developer ID and signed the app yesterday.

MBgoinAK

Level 1

0 points

Aug 14, 2014 12:58 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thankyou for the post,I dont have any safety net but am carefull about what i download, somehow this got by me and was very annoying!

Thanks for the info !

asope018

Level 1

0 points

Aug 16, 2014 2:47 AM in response to Linc Davis

This worked perfectly for me! This problem was annoying me for months. Thank you so much!

Paiton

Level 1

0 points

Aug 17, 2014 1:10 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thank you so much Linc Davis! I was getting popups from mackeeper.zeobit.com and even with AdBlock, every other new tab or window would be blocked by AdBlock and the mackeeper popup would open. I gotta be more careful. Thanks.

Aug 17, 2014 10:32 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thank you so very much! I didn't download anything, so when I got popups from zeobit, I searched it up and found this. I followed your instructions, went back to my page, and found that no more pop-up lines were under any words! It was beautiful! 😀 You're awesome. Just plain awesome. 🙂 Thank you so so SO much!

Aug 19, 2014 10:20 PM in response to Linc Davis

You are a legend. Thank you for this excellent article. Note to self, don't let my teenagers loose on my mac!

Ruby-May

Level 1

0 points

Aug 20, 2014 11:06 AM in response to Linc Davis

Thank you, Linc Davis,

Your instructions worked perfectly! you have no idea how much I appreciate your help!!

Those annoying popup Ads and tabs from mackeeper are all gone now.

Aug 31, 2014 3:13 PM in response to chickashnaz

Thanks Linc. On August 31, It still worked like a charm.

yeevee

Level 1

0 points

Sep 3, 2014 9:53 AM in response to Linc Davis

Thank you so much Linc Davis! I will admit I was a bit doubtful, but your help was a success!

Capigon

Level 1

9 points

Sep 3, 2014 8:23 PM in response to Linc Davis

I've got the same problem here. Tried Linc Davis' solution but got caught up in the 'Reveal In Finder' instruction. Unfortunately, when I click that option, nothing happens. No 'contextual menu' appears and I'm at a loss as to what to do next.

How do I fix that or how do I get around it?

Thanks, in advance, for your help.

Sep 4, 2014 7:30 AM in response to chickashnaz

Steps below worked like a charm on 4-September-2014, and actually speed up the computer a bit to boot! Kudos to Linc Davis on this one - brilliant.

Sep 4, 2014 7:41 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thank you so much! Just tried and this worked perfectly!!!!

Sep 11, 2014 10:53 AM in response to Linc Davis

Linc Davis

I created an account on here JUST for the singular task of THANKING YOU profusely.

This was driving me absolutely BANANAS!!!

Thank you AGAIN!!

cavenewt

Level 2

368 points

Sep 14, 2014 1:43 PM in response to chickashnaz

You can bypass Gatekeeper IF YOU TRUST THE APP by right-clicking on its icon and choosing Open.

Sep 18, 2014 6:35 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

This solved my problem.I went through hundreds of topics...but only this solved my prob... took 4 hours to search but solved in 2 minutes THANKS !!!!!

ANNOYING MACKEEPER TABS AND POPUP ADS