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TThere's not a lot of information out on this that I know of. Based on what I have read, this is a nasty infection. Please tell me that someone out there can help me out. Thanks!
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MAc Book Pro. osx Yosemite
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), Browser hijacker amazonaws removal
Your question leaves a lot to the imagination, but I'll take a guess as to what you mean. It's a Web scam that only affects your browser, and only temporarily. There are several ways to recover.
1. Some of those scam pages can be dismissed very easily. Press the key combination command-W to close the tab or window. A huge box will pop up. Press the return key and both the box and the page will close. If that doesn't happen, continue.
2. Press and hold command-W. You may hear repeating alert sounds. While holding the keys, click the OK button in the popup. A different popup may appear, which you can cancel out of as usual.
3. From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Security
and uncheck the box marked Enable JavaScript. Leave the preferences dialog open.
Close the malicious window or tab.
Re-enable JavaScript and close the preferences dialog.
4. If the Preferences menu item is grayed out, quit Safari. Force quit if necessary. Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock. None of the windows and tabs will reopen.
After closing the malicious page, from the menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data
to get rid of any cookies or other data left by the server. Open your Downloads folder and delete anything you don't recognize.
Your question leaves a lot to the imagination, but I'll take a guess as to what you mean. It's a Web scam that only affects your browser, and only temporarily. There are several ways to recover.
1. Some of those scam pages can be dismissed very easily. Press the key combination command-W to close the tab or window. A huge box will pop up. Press the return key and both the box and the page will close. If that doesn't happen, continue.
2. Press and hold command-W. You may hear repeating alert sounds. While holding the keys, click the OK button in the popup. A different popup may appear, which you can cancel out of as usual.
3. From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Security
and uncheck the box marked Enable JavaScript. Leave the preferences dialog open.
Close the malicious window or tab.
Re-enable JavaScript and close the preferences dialog.
4. If the Preferences menu item is grayed out, quit Safari. Force quit if necessary. Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock. None of the windows and tabs will reopen.
After closing the malicious page, from the menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data
to get rid of any cookies or other data left by the server. Open your Downloads folder and delete anything you don't recognize.
That did it ! I can't thank you enough.
Any idea on how to solve this same problem on an iPad Air 3?
Actually I think I have gotten to work by using some of your info. Went to settings, Safari, advanced, turned off JavaScript. Went back safari, was able to close bad window. Closed safari turned JavaScript back on, went to safari and didn't get pop up again. Hopefully will stick, what a pain. Anyone know the origin of this?
same thing occurred on my phone. seems to only hit when arriving to a certain location in the city (i live in chicago). followed these steps and hopefully the issue is now resolved.
thanks!
Thank you, SO much. It freaked me out.
central-1.amazonaws pls help me remove this it's on my Mac computer I don't know how to undo it! This thing pops up and I can't do anything
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