Dear Apple Community,
I have been having this issue with my 2013 MBP 13" Retina display where every time I open www.piratebay.se with Safari a pop up opens up even though I have Adblock Plus on. This issue only happens on this particular site and nowhere else. Any advice on this issue would be appreciated. Thank you
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Helpful Links Regarding Malware Protection
An excellent link to read is Tom Reed's Mac Malware Guide.
Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
See these Apple articles:
Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
OS X Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
OS X Mountain Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
OS X Mavericks- Protect your Mac from malware
If you require anti-virus protection Thomas Reed recommends using ClamXAV. (Thank you to Thomas Reed for this recommendation.)
From user Joe Bailey comes this equally useful advice:
The facts are:
1. There is no anti-malware software that can detect 100% of the malware out there.
2. There is no anti-malware that can detect anything targeting the Mac because there
is no Mac malware in the wild, and therefore, no "signatures" to detect.
3. The very best way to prevent the most attacks is for you as the user to be aware that
the most successful malware attacks rely on very sophisticated social engineering
techniques preying on human avarice, ****, and fear.
4. Internet popups saying the FBI, NSA, Microsoft, your ISP has detected malware on
your computer is intended to entice you to install their malware thinking it is a
protection against malware.
5. Some of the anti-malware products on the market are worse than the malware
from which they purport to protect you.
6. Be cautious where you go on the internet.
7. Only download anything from sites you know are safe.
8. Avoid links you receive in email, always be suspicious even if you get something
you think is from a friend, but you were not expecting.
9. If there is any question in your mind, then assume it is malware.
Dear Kappy,
Thank you for the reply, It was very helpful. There was another issue I have been having for a few months now. I have been having a wake/sleep issue with the laptop. Every time I'm using the laptop and it goes in to sleep I quickly swipe the trackpad to wake the computer up and I end up with this blank screen and all I can see is the mouse cursor. I think apple was aware of the issue and in 10.9.4 in the update description it said fixes issues with some laptops with sleep/wake issue. After the update I still had the same issues with no fix. I later took it to the apple store and they erased my whole computer and said not to use any back up and try using it as new again. Still having the same issue and its getting really annoying. Do you have any ideas what can be causing this or do you know of any fix for this issue? Thank you again in advance.
Open Energy Saver preferences. Set the sleep time for the computer to Never so only the monitor sleeps. If you are using the computer on battery power the sleep times are usually set to be very short. Note that changing these times will also impact on the battery's usage time.
Is there no fix where I can keep it the way it is and the computer wakes up normally? I also have caffeine and f.lux installed could that be interfering?
Hey Kappy i ran the malware too you sent me also and nothing was detected. Any other advice why the pop up is appearing when I open www.piratebay.se?
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MayalFromNJ wrote:
Is there no fix where I can keep it the way it is and the computer wakes up normally?
Have you installed MacBook Pro Retina EFI Update v1.3?
Yes I had done that last year and that is for the keyboard and trackpad not for a sleep/wake issue. Thank you for the reply though.
Hello Linc here is the screen shot of the pop up that I get only when I open www.piratebay.se. This only happens when I open piratebay website and Adblock Plus is on.
If you only get that on one website, then it's not malware; it's just an ad on the site that "Adblock" fails to block. No ad blocker works perfectly. If you're not getting the results you want, try another one, such as "Glimmerblocker," or just stay away from that site.
Hello Linc I also made a video of the black screen I get when trying to wake the computer up. I tried dragging the video in this window and it wasn't working. I uploaded the video to my dropbox account and am attaching the link to access it. Please do give me your input about the situation. Thank You
Thank you Lin Davis for your help. I really appreciate it. I have 1 last question if you could help me out with this as well. I have Adblock Plus ext installed on my Safari and what I have started noticing is that my web page loading as started lagging significantly. I don't know what has become more annoying the pop ups or the lag when loading web pages. Do I really need a Adblocker and if so is there any other alternative I can use. I am attaching this link where I have tried to get some help but everyone is having the same problem. Thank you for your help once again.
I already suggested an alternative to Adblock. Good luck.
Im sorry Linc you did mention glimmerblocker in the previous post, I somehow missed it. Thank you very much
Pop Ups on Safari with AdBlock Plus extension on
