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Hi all. Last night I downloaded what I thought was a Flash plugin update (prompted by a legitimate site I visited) but it installed some kind of crazy 'Mac Cleaner' programme. I went through the usual process to delete and remove that but it left a strange search engine plugin on my browsers. I've removed it from Chrome & Firefox (which was easy) run a virus cleaner but it's still messing with Safari.


I've wiped Safari but when I go to preferences it still shows that my set homepage is http://search46107304-a.akamaihd.net/h?_pg=D7634BD9-F8A9-54E1-8E63-775A46B626FA


I've tried setting a new homepage (BBC News, Google, whatever) but, no matter what I do, it defaults to the above. I have no plugins installed and I just don't know what to do to either kill the malware completely or how to fix Safari. I even reinstalled MacOS and it's still doing it.


Anyhow, anyone got any ideas?


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Posted on Mar 18, 2018 1:09 AM

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Posted on Mar 18, 2018 3:40 AM

System Preferences > Profiles

Is there any Profile listed?

Is there any unknown application in Application folder?

Finder > Applications

Please run EtreCheck and post the report here.


https://etrecheck.com


Click “Free Download” button, open Downloads folder, click on it to open, and then select ”Open”.

Click on the bouncing EtreCheck icon in the Dock.

“Choose a problem” from the popup menu box, and then “Start EtreCheck” in the dialog.


Click “Share Report” button in the toolbar, select “Copy to Clipboard” .

Paste it into the reply.

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