bannersdontwork on Safari

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bannersdontwork on Safari

Hi,

My MacBook Air has been infected by something that, from time to time, on my safari, serve.bannersdontwork.com will popup and after a second or two, will direct the browsing session to reimageplus.com. I know there was an old thread How can delete the serve.bannersdontwork virus from Safari on Mac?, and on that thread, the solution seemed to be to remove/disable extensions....which I did. And still did not help.

Please help....

Thanks

Sean

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 19, 2015 12:38 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 20, 2015 12:52 AM in response to seantshen

Try to use AdwareMedic to remove adware

http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php

Download the application, open adware medic dog file and run it by clicking “Scan for Adware” button to remove adware.

Once it will finish , quit AdwareMedic and restart mac

If this will not help check this link:

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

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Answer 2

seantshen Author

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Apr 20, 2015 4:44 PM in response to Rod Greenway

Thanks. It worked great. At first I had concerns about installing AdwareMedic (installing another software to get rid of something may make things worse). Then I did some search, especially visited https://discussions.apple.com/profile/thomas_r., who is the developer of Adwaremedic, i decided to give a try. And it instantly found a number of adware on my mac and the cleaning worked great too.

Thank you Rod, and thank you Tom R, for producing this tool.

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