Accidentally clicked "ok" button on a pop up

Greetings, recently I visited a website where, after 5-10 seconds after loading the page, a popup showed up (similar to the fraudolent ones in this topic) asking me to share something (i didn't really read what was in the window box). There was an option to ignore it, i pressed it and after doing the same thing with a second pop-up showing up consecutively, I thought I was fine. The pop-up sequence showed up every time I loaded a new page of that website, but since I was able to say no to it I kept exploring. I ended up making an insite search to find out the information I was interested in, but after a quick typing I pressed "Enter" exactly at the time the pop up showed up, and so I actually accidentally agreed to "share" what it wanted me to share.

I already followed normal security procedures to clean cache, cookies, history, check my settings and my Library folder. It seems everything is alright.


The question is, what can be the consequences of that action? What kind of data might they have had access to? What would you suggest me to do?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 9.1

Posted on Nov 3, 2015 11:13 PM

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Nov 4, 2015 7:34 PM in response to Chiomago

Don't use any kind of "anti-virus" or "anti-malware" product on a Mac. There is never a need for it, and relying on it for protection makes you more vulnerable to attack, not less.

Your problem is most likely not caused by malware. It's 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 the browser. Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock, the LaunchPad, or the Applications folder.

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.

Nov 3, 2015 11:35 PM in response to Chiomago

It depends. What exactly it asked you to share? Usually this pop ups are just scam alerts. It may download some adware plugin on you mac.

Follow the instructions on this web page in order to manually remove adware from your mac: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987

You may also find adware removal guide on this page http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-identification/

If you do not want to remove adware manually use this anti malware tool in order to scan and remove it: https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=social

Download, open dmg file , and run it by clicking “Scan for Adware” button to remove adware.

Once done, quit the application and restart your mac.

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Accidentally clicked "ok" button on a pop up

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