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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

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Sep 1, 2015 6:15 AM in response to Echidna's Arf

Echidna's Arf wrote:


If they do get a fix for this in the new OS X I will definitely upgrade to it.


As MadMacs0 has said, there is nothing about Safari that makes it more vulnerable to these things than any other browser, and there is nothing about Safari in this regard that requires a "fix" from Apple. If you are having problems in one specific browser only, then that probably means you have installed some form of adware in the form of a browser extension. Such things exist for all of the major browsers.


So, if you're really having problems with Safari that are not occurring for the same sites in Firefox or Chrome, then you may have a bad browser extension installed in Safari. Open Safari's preferences window, click the Extensions icon, and look at the list of installed extensions. What are they?

Dec 24, 2016 5:41 AM in response to chickashnaz

Followed Linc Davis steps but there were no such lines to find. As Linc said, mackeeper changes names all the time.

I just went to all the folders manually mentioned like /Library/LaunchAgents, Library/LaunchDaemons/ etc.

Then select all files and right click to see/open info (command A and command I) to see which .plist or other files were the last added or modified.

In my case it had the name zipcloud and some other unknown launch trash. All trash was in the HD/Library/LaunchAgents folder. Look/search in both Library folders, HD/Library and Home/Library.

Trash, empty trash and restart for security. Bye mackeeper!!

ANNOYING MACKEEPER TABS AND POPUP ADS

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