On shut down, popup appears to ask if I want to abort installation

Please check the page :

Remove unwanted adware that displays pop-up ads and graphics on your Mac - Apple Support

And :

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/124221/how-do-i-get-rid-of-genieo-from- my-macbook-pro

I got it removed this way:

I did a search for all "installer packages" -- for which I found two.

I trashed the two "installer packages" (the two icons look like little brown boxes that are open).

I did a restart, and the computer shut down fine with the "do I wish to abort the install" G-O-N-E.

Hope this helps!

Hi, I have had the same problem and I got this app (completer) out my system and fixed.

~/Library/Application Support/com.genieoinnovation.Installer/

Many thanks dvaidh! Same problem ... dittos. However, i couldn't find "Reset Search" in Launchpat.

So i searched the mac hd and there it was in the same box that shows up on the window above.

Now for the shut down test.

No this did not work. Thanks anyway now we can R/O that issue. Next i'll try see if my router has been hacked?

If not i'll try the above until i solve this puzzle. Any help please.

i'm using a MBP 13" Retna on os x 10.9.5

Actually I did almost everything that is instructed below.

So maybe you want to try, too. I got rid of several software.

Remove unwanted adware that displays pop-up ads and graphics on your Mac - Apple Support

Thanks bananapurry and all of you for your answers

I follow all the topics Remove unwanted adware that displays pop-up ads and graphics on your Mac - Apple Support and it works

Follow instructions particularly for Vsearch and Genieo in your Applications and Preferences System and Users and empty trash in secure mode

Since i do that i turn off my computer and the window "abort install'" disappear

I wish you all an happy new year without malware

I called Apple and it took less than 5 minutes to install http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php for free. The support staff talked me through it, and the Reset Search in Launchpad is now gone.

AdwareMedic worked for me too.. Thanks a lot!

AdwareMedic worked for me. Two anti-virus programs took hours and found nothing. AdwareMedic worked and did it in less than a minute. I donated US$20. Nice. Fixed Safari and Firefox crash problem (so far as I can tell after a day's use). Considering all the time I had spent, I didn't want to have to keep reading articles and trying things. I was totally frustrated in part because I wanted to do a clone (which I do weekly).

DISCLAIMER: I am not in any way associated with the AdwareMedic people. I lucked out finding this thread during a search, tried AdwareMedic (and a couple other suggestions in this thread) and it worked for me.

Use the donationware Adwaremedic to remove all adware from your computer. This should solve the issue

http://www.adwaremedic.com

I worked out how to get rid of this message you need to go into activity monitor, you can find it by opening finder, click on applications, and then further click on the Utilities folder and you will find it in there. You should see the installer icon (there was 2 on mine) and all you do is force quit these. that sorted it out for me. Not sure what they were but happy my Mac is back to normal. Hope this helps.

I worked out how to get rid of this message you need to go into activity monitor, you can find it by opening finder, click on applications, and then further click on the Utilities folder and you will find it in there. You should see the installer icon (there was 2 on mine) and all you do is force quit these. that sorted it out for me. Not sure what they were but happy my Mac is back to normal. Hope this helps.

Eric Root provided the solution to fix my pop-up at shutdown which was related to the Adobe Flash Player that I recently upgraded. The thing is, I use the Chrome browser and I didn't know that Chrome keeps Flash up to date automatically. I can't recall which website I was on that told me to update my Flash Player but there was the problem; I didn't need to update it. Hum, I wonder why the Flash Player wasn't working on that site then. Hum... well, I may have been using Firefox at the time. Anyway, to Eric, thank you! 🙂

That is exactly what I'm getting.