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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

iamdexwu

Level 1

0 points

Nov 24, 2014 10:28 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks Linc Davis! 🙂

Lexiepex

Level 6

14,102 points

Nov 25, 2014 12:49 AM in response to SnooK85

I am not sure about "royally", but there is a slight chance that you are screwed yes, but in the case of Flashplayer you are probably lucky.

SnooK85 wrote:

"This trojan is distributed on illegal websites that traffic in pirated movies. If you, or anyone else who uses the computer, visit such sites and follow prompts to install software, you can expect much worse to happen in the future."

OMG I downloaded a "flash player" from one of these sites. Am I royally screwed now ?

I am not sure about "royally" 😁 , but there is a slight chance that you are screwed yes, but in the case of Flashplayer you are probably lucky.

Nov 25, 2014 10:08 AM in response to Linc Davis

WOW THANKS SO MUCH Linc Davis!!! Nov 25, 2014 🙂

shotrum

Level 1

0 points

Nov 25, 2014 8:22 PM in response to SnooK85

SnooK85 wrote:

"This trojan is distributed on illegal websites that traffic in pirated movies. If you, or anyone else who uses the computer, visit such sites and follow prompts to install software, you can expect much worse to happen in the future."

OMG I downloaded a "flash player" from one of these sites. Am I royally screwed now ?

I did the same thing. It looked legit enough and I'm usually very careful. Now I know.

shotrum

Level 1

0 points

Nov 25, 2014 8:23 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks Linc Davis! 11/25/14 and it worked for me!

Nov 26, 2014 6:07 AM in response to chickashnaz

Thanks man , These add's have been doing my head in for a while now !! Thanks for the link

mynamyna

Level 1

0 points

Nov 26, 2014 7:20 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thank you so very much Linc Davis. I had the same problem as described by chickashnaz and have managed to solve. Feel so relieved

mynamyna

Level 1

0 points

Nov 26, 2014 7:23 PM in response to chickashnaz

I had the same problem as described by you, chickashnaz and have managed to solve. Thank you so very much Linc Davis.Feel so relieved

Nov 27, 2014 9:01 AM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks for your very detailed info. It was a great help. Thanks

Jaimex

Level 1

4 points

Nov 27, 2014 12:05 PM in response to Linc Davis

This one Worked just perfect THANKS A LOT

meqa

Level 1

0 points

Nov 28, 2014 2:30 AM in response to chickashnaz

Worked 28 November, thank you for posting this questions chickashnaz and thank you for the solution Linc Davis! The popups were driving me insane! I thought I would have to reformat my computer! Thanks again!

Nov 28, 2014 9:22 AM in response to Linc Davis

It is rare to get this kind of help, even from the tech support from the likes of Apple, Dell, HP, etc. I printed these instructions and walked through them step by step. Problem solved. Thank you for the time spent on this issue. I was losing my mind with those pop-up tabs.

Capt3dog

Level 1

4 points

Nov 28, 2014 4:57 PM in response to thomas_r.

I can't thank you enough and I even made an appropriate donation. I tried everything everyone suggested and was about to give up. I tried you software and it found 3 adware files and removed them and all is back to normal. I had to go back and change all the settings others were suggestion that had not effect on the redirect problem. I hope the developer of the malware gets justice some day.

Nov 28, 2014 5:59 PM in response to Linc Davis

Your Solution is brilliant,worked like a charm, many thank Linc, hats off to your knowledge.Thanks Shiva

Milo88

Level 1

0 points

Nov 30, 2014 10:12 PM in response to Linc Davis

Hi, just a question

If I dont back up all of my files, will they still be there after the process is done or will they all be gone?

ANNOYING MACKEEPER TABS AND POPUP ADS