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cannot do anything in safari this is the error message that is stopping safari working
I have upgraded today to fibre optic I don;t know if that is anything to do with it I am having to use firefox to gain internet access
any ideas please? thankyou in advance on an imac OSX
julie
It's probably a Web scam that only affects the browser, and only temporarily. There are several ways to recover.
1. The easiest thing to do is to force quit Safari. Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock.
You will lose the state of other open tabs and windows. Either Step 2 or Step 3 may enable you to keep that state information. If those steps don't work, fall back to Step 1.
2. 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 may close. If that doesn't happen, 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.
After closing the malicious page, select from the menu bar
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data
to get rid of any cookies or other data left by the server. Open the Downloads folder and delete anything you don't recognize.
It's probably a Web scam that only affects the browser, and only temporarily. There are several ways to recover.
1. The easiest thing to do is to force quit Safari. Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock.
You will lose the state of other open tabs and windows. Either Step 2 or Step 3 may enable you to keep that state information. If those steps don't work, fall back to Step 1.
2. 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 may close. If that doesn't happen, 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.
After closing the malicious page, select from the menu bar
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data
to get rid of any cookies or other data left by the server. Open the Downloads folder and delete anything you don't recognize.
I cant get into preferences everything is greyed out
Did you take Step 1?
Read Phony "tech support" / "ransomware" popups and web pages.
Those popups can affect any website that hosts advertisements, but this sort of thing (and worse) should be expected if you frequent TPB:
See also:
A Browser Pop-up has Taken Over Safari.
(Note that I am affiliated with that site, and some pages contain ads).
Thank you! I was completely flummoxed.
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