Q: Pop Ups on Safari with AdBlock Plus extension on

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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

  About file quarantine in OS X

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.

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.

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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?

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.

Blank (lighted, but black) screen with cursor at bootup

[SOLVED] - Macbook Air Sleep/Wake problem

Dark screen on start-up can only see curser

I already suggested an alternative to Adblock. Good luck.