Notifications from Safari

tygb wrote:

See this article Safari Websites preferences on Mac - Apple Support

Notifications

For the sites you specified, choose one of the following: Allow: The site can always send you notifications. Deny: The site can’t send you notifications. For all sites: Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications: When you visit a website that can send you notifications, you see a dialog asking if you want to receive them. To stop seeing the dialog, deselect this option.

Thanks. I was unaware of this. I'd only visited the Safari notifications preference in System Preferences. When I clicked on Websites>Notifications, nearly every site listed said 'Deny'. The exceptions were sites I expect notifications from, like ebay, Apple Discussions etc. and the one from which I've been getting unwanted notifications, which said 'Allow'. I've changed this to 'Deny'.

This is obviously the problem, and I'm marking this solved.

Thanks again,

Steve = : ^ )

It's not a website I remember visiting voluntarily, but I've deleted it (from the list a gazillions of sites that have stored data on my computer!) in Safari's Security prefs. I've made myself a reminder in a couple of weeks to check if there have been any new notifications. I'll post the result here.

Thanks again,

Steve = : ^ )

Point taken about obsolete software and I'll take this opportunity to delete it. None of it seems to relate to getting notifications from Safari.

As I only get one of these notifications every few days – always from the same site – and once the notification has been clicked on it disappears from Notification Centre, I can't see a way to test if the problem is fixed or not.

Thanks again,

Steve = : ^ )

Thanks for the reply. To be clear, I'm not getting a 'pop-up'. I'm getting a *notification*. It appears top right of my screen like all the other notifications and clicking on it opens an app (Safari in this case) like clicking on any of my other notifications does. The only weirdness is that I have "None" selected under the alert style in Notifications prefs for Safari.

I've deleted the orphan files.

Point taken about Cocktail.

Thanks again,

Steve = : ^ )

P.S. I clicked 'Helpful Answer' in the alert email for your reply and it brought me here but didn't mark your reply as helpful, and neither can I mark it as Helpful from here. This seems to be a bug in the email alerts.

Yep, that's a more detailed explanation of the fix given above. That's the same website I was having the problem with! I don't remember ever buying from them, though.

Steve = : ^ )

Thanks for the reply. I don't see any of the usually described adware behaviours. I'm just getting a legitimate notification – in the same location and format as my other notifications – and clicking on it opens Safari. I think this is legitimate behaviour for the Mac – except that I have Safari notifications disabled.

Here's my EtreCheck report. I don't see any adware, but I don't really know what I'm looking for. Do you see anything suspicious?

Thanks again,

Steve = : ^ )

EtreCheck version: 3.4.6 (460)

Report generated 2018-02-01 09:24:28

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime: 2:22

Performance: Excellent

Click the [Lookup] links for more information from Apple Support Communities.

Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.

Click the [Clean up] link to delete unused files.

Problem: Other problem

Description:

Receiving notifications from Safari

Hardware Information:ⓘ

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)

[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

iMac - model: iMac14,2

1 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 (i7-4771) CPU: 4-core

24 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 0/DIMM1

8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM1

8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Handoff/Airdrop2: supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

iCloud Quota: 29.31 GB available

Video Information:ⓘ

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M - VRAM: 2048 MB

iMac 2560 x 1440

SyncMaster 1600 x 900 @ 60 Hz

Disk Information:ⓘ

APPLE SSD SD0128F disk0: (121.33 GB) (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

[Show SMART report]

EFI (disk0s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

(disk0s2) <not mounted> [CoreStorage Container]: 120.99 GB

Boot OS X (disk0s3 - Journaled HFS+) <not mounted> : 134 MB

APPLE HDD ST1000DM003 disk1: (1 TB) (Rotational)

[Show SMART report]

EFI (disk1s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

(disk1s2) <not mounted> [CoreStorage Container]: 999.35 GB

Recovery HD (disk1s3 - HFS+) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

USB Information:ⓘ

USB30Bus

LaCie P'9223 Mobile Drive

5AS disk5: (500.11 GB)

EFI (disk5s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

LaCie 500GB (disk5s2 - Journaled HFS+) /Volumes/LaCie 500GB : 499.76 GB (382.60 GB free)

VIA Labs, Inc. USB3.0 Hub

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub

iLok iLok

USB2.0-MIDI

Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard

VIA Labs, Inc. USB2.0 Hub

composite_device

Edge 520 Flash disk8: (110.5 MB)

Apple Inc. iPhone

composite_device

Firewire Information:ⓘ

Macpower Oxford ATA Device 00 800mbit - 800mbit max

EFI (disk3s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

External OS Drive (disk3s2 - Journaled HFS+) /Volumes/External OS Drive : 998.70 GB (780.61 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk3s3 - Journaled HFS+) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

Recovery HD (disk3s4 - Journaled HFS+) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

Macpower Oxford ATA Device 00 800mbit - 800mbit max

EFI (disk4s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

H&A (disk4s2 - Journaled HFS+) /Volumes/H&A : 999.35 GB (481.21 GB free)

LaCie Rugged USB3-FW 800mbit - 800mbit max

EFI (disk6s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

Samples (disk6s2 - Journaled HFS+) /Volumes/Samples : 999.86 GB (49.91 GB free)

Thunderbolt Information:ⓘ

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Apple Inc. Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter

Virtual disks:ⓘ

Fusion Drive (disk2 - Journaled HFS+) / [Startup]: 1.11 TB (566.25 GB free)

Physical disk: disk0s2 120.99 GB Online

Physical disk: disk1s2 999.35 GB Online

GARMIN (disk8 - MS-DOS FAT16) /Volumes/GARMIN : 110 MB (53 MB free)

Physical disk: Edge 520 Flash 110 MB (53 MB free)

System Software:ⓘ

macOS Sierra 10.12.6 (16G1212) - Time since boot: about one hour

Gatekeeper:ⓘ

Mac App Store and identified developers

Clean up:ⓘ

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.brother.LOGINserver.plist

/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/Server/LOGINserver.app/Contents/MacOS/LOGIN server

Executable not found!

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.staticz.audio.soundsiphon.player.plist

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/SoundSiphon.driver/Helpers/SoundSiphonPlayer

Executable not found!

2 orphan files found. [Clean up]

Kernel Extensions:ⓘ

/Applications/DiskWarrior.app

[not loaded] com.alsoft.Preview (5.0 - SDK 10.5) [Lookup]

/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app

[not loaded] com.parallels.kext.hypervisor (12.2.1 41615 - SDK 10.9) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.parallels.kext.netbridge (12.2.1 41615 - SDK 10.9) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.parallels.kext.usbconnect (12.2.1 41615 - SDK 10.9) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.parallels.kext.vnic (12.2.1 41615 - SDK 10.9) [Lookup]

/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.motu.driver.USBMidiKext (1.6 71459 - SDK 10.6) [Lookup]

/Library/Extensions/tap.kext

[not loaded] foo.tap (20080121) [Lookup]

/Library/Extensions/tun.kext

[not loaded] foo.tun (20080121) [Lookup]

/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.Belcarra.iokit.USBLAN_netpart (2.0.2) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.Belcarra.iokit.USBLAN_usbpart (2.0.2) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.RemoteControl.USBLAN.usbpart (2.0.6) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.kext (1.58 - SDK 10.4) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.motu.driver.FireWireAudio (1.6 60625 - SDK 10.4) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.motu.driver.MicroBookAudio (1.6 60625 - SDK 10.4) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.motu.driver.PCIAudio (1.6 60625 - SDK 10.4) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.master (5.7.2) [Lookup]

/System/Library/Extensions/Belcarra.USBLAN_netpart.kext/Contents/PlugIns

[not loaded] com.belcarra.iokit.netpart.panther (1.6.1) [Lookup]

/System/Library/Extensions/Belcarra.USBLAN_usbpart.kext/Contents/PlugIns

[not loaded] com.belcarra.iokit.usbpart.panther (1.6.1) [Lookup]

/System/Library/Extensions/PACESupportFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns

[not loaded] com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.leopard (5.7.2) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.panther (5.7.2) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard (5.7.2) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.tiger (5.7.2) [Lookup]

/System/Library/Extensions/RemoteControl.USBLAN_usbpart.kext/Contents/PlugIns

[not loaded] com.RemoteControl.USBLAN.panther (1.6.1) [Lookup]

Startup Items:ⓘ

Cocktail: Path: /Library/StartupItems/Cocktail

CocktailBroadbandOptimization: Path: /Library/StartupItems/CocktailBroadbandOptimization

PACESupport: Path: /Library/StartupItems/PACESupport

tap: Path: /Library/StartupItems/tap

tun: Path: /Library/StartupItems/tun

Startup items no longer function in OS X Yosemite or later

System Launch Agents:ⓘ

[not loaded] 6 Apple tasks

[loaded] 174 Apple tasks

[running] 105 Apple tasks

System Launch Daemons:ⓘ

[not loaded] 39 Apple tasks

[loaded] 170 Apple tasks

[running] 108 Apple tasks

Launch Agents:ⓘ

[running] com.bjango.istatmenus.agent.plist (Bjango Pty Ltd - installed 2017-10-09) [Lookup]

[running] com.bjango.istatmenus.status.plist (Bjango Pty Ltd - installed 2017-10-09) [Lookup]

[failed] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist (? a1772de2 0 - installed 2013-07-08) [Lookup] - /Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/Server/LOGINserver.app/Contents/MacOS/LOGIN server: Executable not found!

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2017-09-28) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.maintain.LogOut.plist (Shell Script 52c16c4b - installed 2018-01-19)

[not loaded] com.maintain.PurgeInactiveMemory.plist (? 0 ? - installed 2016-12-02) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.maintain.Restart.plist (Shell Script b392741a - installed 2018-01-19)

[not loaded] com.maintain.ShutDown.plist (Shell Script 83dbe49b - installed 2018-01-19)

[not loaded] com.maintain.Sleep.plist (Shell Script 269361ac - installed 2018-01-19)

[running] com.maintain.SystemEvents.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2017-07-21)

[running] com.motu.MOTULauncher.plist (? ? ? - installed 2016-01-15) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist (? 1816e2bc 1a4bf56e - installed 2018-01-25) [Lookup]

[failed] com.staticz.audio.soundsiphon.player.plist (? a271b53d 0 - installed 2013-10-30) [Lookup] - /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/SoundSiphon.driver/Helpers/SoundSiphonPlayer: Executable not found!

Launch Daemons:ⓘ

[loaded] PACESupport.plist (Shell Script ab6b5614 - installed 2009-07-25) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-12-15) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.apple.installer.osmessagetracing.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2018-01-19)

[running] com.bjango.istatmenus.daemon.plist (Bjango Pty Ltd - installed 2017-10-09) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.bjango.istatmenus.installerhelper.plist (Bjango Pty Ltd - installed 2017-10-09) [Lookup]

[running] com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.daemon.plist (? 5fc87722 817bdf - installed 2012-05-29) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.gobbler.DownstreamProxy.plist (It's Chrisco Inc - installed 2017-10-03) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.gobbler.bsd.HelperTool.plist (It's Chrisco Inc - installed 2017-03-29) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2017-10-13) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.maintain.AutoLoginUserScreenLocked.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2018-01-19)

[not loaded] com.maintain.CocktailScheduler.plist (Shell Script 300b8a41 - installed 2018-01-19)

[not loaded] com.maintain.HideSpotlightMenuBarIcon.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2017-07-15)

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist (? 6d8cb30e 442fdde9 - installed 2011-03-10) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.native-instruments.NativeAccess.Helper2.plist (Native Instruments GmbH - installed 2017-06-22) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist (Shell Script e3fefdd2 - installed 2017-12-20) [Lookup]

[running] com.paceap.eden.licensed.plist (PACE Anti-Piracy, Inc. - installed 2017-10-03) [Lookup]

User Launch Agents:ⓘ

[loaded] com.apple.SafariBookmarksSyncer.plist (? ? ? - installed 2008-12-17)

[loaded] com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist (Dropbox, Inc. - installed 2017-08-11) [Lookup]

[running] com.ecamm.printopia.plist (Decisive Tactics, Inc. - installed 2016-12-14) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.maintain.ShowUserLibraryDirectory.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2017-12-03)

[loaded] com.shirtpocket.backupbytime.plist (Shell Script f23568fb - installed 2018-01-31)

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist (Spotify - installed 2017-08-04) [Lookup]

User Login Items:ⓘ

ChronoSync Scheduler Application (Econ Technologies, Inc. - installed 2017-11-09)

(/Applications/ChronoSync.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/ChronoSync Scheduler.app)

SizeUp Application

(/Applications/SizeUp.app)

Dropbox Application

(/Applications/Dropbox.app)

BetterTouchTool Application

(/Applications/BetterTouchTool.app)

DiskWarriorStarter Application

(/Applications/DiskWarrior.app/Contents/Helpers/DiskWarriorStarter.app)

Resilio Sync Application

(/Applications/Resilio Sync.app)

Keyboard Maestro Engine Application (Stairways Software Pty Ltd - installed 2017-11-06)

(/Applications/Keyboard Maestro.app/Contents/MacOS/Keyboard Maestro Engine.app)

Console 1 On-Screen Display Application

(/Applications/Console 1 On-Screen Display.app)

Internet Plug-ins:ⓘ

LogitechHarmony: 2.0 (installed 2014-05-08) [Lookup]

DirectorShockwave: 11.5.9r620 (installed 2014-05-08) [Lookup]

Loki: 3.4.2.20 (installed 2014-05-08) [Lookup]

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: 3.0.0.126 (installed 2014-05-08) [Lookup]

Silverlight: 5.1.50428.0 (installed 2016-07-08) [Lookup]

FlashPlayer-10.6: 28.0.0.137 (installed 2018-01-10) [Lookup]

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (installed 2018-02-01)

Flash Player: 28.0.0.137 (installed 2018-01-10) [Lookup]

iPhotoPhotocast: 6.0 (installed 2014-05-08)

SharePointBrowserPlugin: 14.4.8 (installed 2015-02-11) [Lookup]

GarminGpsControl: 4.2.0.0 (installed 2014-04-01) [Lookup]

npDDRia: 0.0.14.1 (installed 2014-05-08) [Lookup]

JavaAppletPlugin: Java 8 Update 161 build 12 (installed 2018-01-25) Check version

User internet Plug-ins:ⓘ

Picasa: 1.0 (installed 2014-05-08) [Lookup]

Safari Extensions:ⓘ

[disabled] DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials - DuckDuckGo - http://duckduckgo.com (installed 2018-01-26)

[enabled] Lyrics Here by Rob W - Rob Wu - https://robwu.nl/lyricshere/ (installed 2017-01-02)

[enabled] Open in Internet Explorer - Parallels - http://www.parallels.com (installed 2012-09-29)

[enabled] AnyList Recipe Import - AnyList - https://www.anylistapp.com (installed 2017-12-09)

[enabled] F.B. Purity - Cleans Up Facebook - Stephen Fernandez - http://www.fbpurity.com (installed 2016-01-17)

[disabled] ClickToPlugin - Marc Hoyois - http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ (installed 2016-03-30)

[enabled] Incognito - Orbicule - http://www.orbicule.com/incognito/ (installed 2014-07-14)

[enabled] Media Center - Marc Hoyois - http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/mediacenter/ (installed 2015-12-14)

3rd Party Preference Panes:ⓘ

Default Folder X (installed 2014-05-08) [Lookup]

Flash Player (installed 2017-12-15) [Lookup]

Flip4Mac WMV (installed 2014-05-08) [Lookup]

Java (installed 2018-01-25) [Lookup]

MacFUSE (installed 2014-05-08) [Lookup]

Perian (installed 2011-07-24) [Lookup]

Printopia (installed 2016-11-07) [Lookup]

Time Machine:ⓘ

Skip System Files: NO

Mobile backups: OFF

Auto backup: YES

Volumes being backed up:

Fusion Drive: Disk size: 1.11 TB Disk used: 548.23 GB

Destinations:

Data [Network]

Total size: 2.00 TB

Total number of backups: 64

Oldest backup: 5/07/17, 12:41 am

Last backup: 1/02/18, 8:52 am

Size of backup disk: Adequate

Backup size 2.00 TB > (Disk used 548.23 GB X 3)

Top Processes by CPU:ⓘ

34% Finder

18% osascript

12% kernel_task

4% com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

4% com.apple.WebKit.Networking

Top Processes by Memory:ⓘ

1.49 GB kernel_task

1.08 GB softwareupdated

528 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

527 MB Photos

414 MB mds_stores

Top Processes by Network Use:ⓘ

Input Output Process name

164 KB 488 KB Dropbox

627 KB 5 KB Mail

244 KB 167 KB mDNSResponder

301 KB 24 KB com.apple.WebKit.Networking

250 KB 10 KB Trello

Top Processes by Energy Use:ⓘ

55.26 Finder

7.78 Digital Performer

3.82 Trello Helper

1.56 Console1OSD_Release

Virtual Memory Information:ⓘ

12.48 GB Available RAM

7.93 GB Free RAM

11.52 GB Used RAM

4.56 GB Cached files

0 B Swap Used

Software installs (last 30 days):ⓘ

Adobe Flash Player: (installed 2018-01-10)

Todoist: 7.0.9 (installed 2018-01-22)

Droplr: 5.0.0 (installed 2018-01-22)

Java 8 Update 161: (installed 2018-01-25)

Spectrasonics Update: (installed 2018-01-25)

Omnisphere Data: (installed 2018-01-25)

Omnisphere: (installed 2018-01-25)

Trilian: (installed 2018-01-25)

SuperDuper!: (installed 2018-01-25)

Todoist: 7.0.10 (installed 2018-02-01)

Install information may not be complete.