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My Macbook Pro seems to be infected with virus. I cant directly type what i want to search for at the link part as it will always be directed to this website X&channel=DP5364&tsp=199&q=goal. There are also a lot of ads appearing on safari. I tried deleting aps that seems suspicious but the ads keep on appearing and sometimes i cant even open certain websites as it will be directed to more and more ads.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
1. Use free Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac/ AdwareMedic to remove adware
http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php
Download, install , open, and run it by clicking “Scan for Adware” button to remove adware.
Once done, quit Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
or
Remove the adware manually by following the “HowTo” from Apple.
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987
2. Disable Extensions and test.
Safari > Preferences > Extensions
Select and dissable all extensions and test.
Enable Extensions one by one and test.
To uninstall any extension, select it and click the “Uninstall” button.
3. Safari > Preferences > Search > Search Engine :
Select your preferred search engine.
4. Safari > Preferences > General > Homepage:
Set your Homepage.
You have adware, not a virus. There are no viruses out in the wild (right now) that can damage OS X. You probably got it from downloading something you shouldn't have from some place you shouldn't have. In the future, avoid the following kinds of sites:
My Macbook Pro seems to be infected with virus.
