Safari infected with akamaihd

Although I couldn't follow what you were saying, I trusted your links to Etracheck and Malwarebytes. And thank you for those. Installed Etrecheck and its report identified the malware: akamaihd.net and all its cheesy follow-ons. I choose the "remove/report" option and after being asked to confirm, the software trashed them and I emptied the trash. Then I installed the Malwarebytes (after some fussiness by the App. Store) and no sooner than the software was installed, up popped their "quarantine window" alerting me to a piece of malware. It was one of the cheesy follow-ons trying to get back in again. Nope, left it quarantined.

Thanks for the two great app. reccomendations.

John Roehling

You are welcome.

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Etrecheck – System Information

You can also download this program which was written by Thomas Reed, a long time poster, to see if it will remove it. The program will do the work for you which makes it easy.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac 10.8 and later

What should I do if Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac didn't solve my problem?

You are welcome.

I posted this way because there are so many questions on deleted cookies reappearing. I had the following cookie reappear (eBay) after deleting it every which way possible: manually, deleting all cookies, deleting cache, etc.....

I have Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 using Safari 10.0.1

I did the following and it worked. 🙂

On the Finder menu use "Go" then "Go to Folder..." the default folder is "~/Library" hit "Go"

Go to the "Safari" folder then in the "Databases" sub-folder.

There you should find another sub-folder "__IndexedDB" inside of that you will find subfolders of :

All the cookies that keep reappearing 😮

Just delete the folder of the cookie you no longer want to reappear and Boom! Pow! they're gone.

So the path is:

~/Library/Safari/Databases/__IndexedDB/

Hope this helps all the users and Apple on fixing this bug.