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Safari stuck on macsystemalerts.com warning.

My Safari has been taken over by a webpage, macsystemalerts.com and wants me to phone them at 800-680-4131. The message seems to imply that this is apple support, but I think it is bogus. How can I get rid of the alert and us Safari again? I'm using Yosemite.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Posted on Nov 2, 2014 9:21 AM

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Posted on Nov 2, 2014 10:03 AM

Force Quit .


Press command + option + esc keys together at the same time. Wait.

When Force Quit window appears, select Safari if not already.

Press Force Quit button at the bottom of the window. Wait.

Safari will quit.


Relaunch Safari holding the shift key down.



Turn off Wifi. Click Wifi icon in the menu bar and select “Turn Wifi off”.

Visit another website.

You won’t have internet connection.

Turn on Wifi. Click Wifi icon in the menu bar and select “Turn Wifi on”.

Select your Network.

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Nov 2, 2014 10:03 AM in response to Lance Raynor

Force Quit .


Press command + option + esc keys together at the same time. Wait.

When Force Quit window appears, select Safari if not already.

Press Force Quit button at the bottom of the window. Wait.

Safari will quit.


Relaunch Safari holding the shift key down.



Turn off Wifi. Click Wifi icon in the menu bar and select “Turn Wifi off”.

Visit another website.

You won’t have internet connection.

Turn on Wifi. Click Wifi icon in the menu bar and select “Turn Wifi on”.

Select your Network.

Nov 10, 2014 2:31 PM in response to dominic23

I followed your advise when i had the same macsystemalerts warning, however I lost all my tabs and I tried to get back in my history to delete the offending pages to no avail. now i have to go back in history and rebuild my tabs i had back.. isn't there a software that can hold your last open tabs history? this way ya can just delete the offending pages and re-open only the good tabs..


many thanks in advance,

Tim

Nov 10, 2014 3:04 PM in response to NiagaraTim

I answered that two postings above.


Your Mac has a file called "lastsession.plist" which always contains all the tabs from your previous Safari session. But it updates whenever you quit Safari, so if you want to view a previous version, the easiest way is to grab it from a Time Machine backup.


If you ever need to force quit Safari, save a copy of that file first. So long as you haven't quit yet, all your current tabs will be in there (FYI the file is designed to power the "reopen all windows from last session" command in your history menu. But if you've been caught in a loop, that command will open the site which caused the loop. So open the file with a text editor and grab your tabbed URLs from there).

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