How to get rid of cloudfront virus?

I was surfing on the Internet and disabled adblock for one of the websites and suddenly all these tabs appeared saying I need to call apple support and window telling me to print the page but when I press cancel it just pops back up. Can't close the taps and nothing will respond. Force closing doesn't help because the next time I click on safari the same thing happens.. Can someone please help me?

Posted on May 22, 2018 11:11 PM

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4 replies

Eric Root

Level 10

685,311 points

May 25, 2018 5:28 PM in response to heidifromheidi

If the above doesn't work, disconnect from the Internet, delete the web site(s) from History,open Safari, and then reconnect to the Internet. See link for other suggestions.

Safari -Tech support scam pop-ups

May 26, 2018 3:54 AM in response to heidifromheidi

Force quit Safari and hold the Shift key when re-opening it.

May 26, 2018 3:54 AM in response to Malcolm J. Rayfield

Thank you very much! I tried and it works now :)

bor0050

Level 1

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May 30, 2018 4:01 PM in response to heidifromheidi

In addition to Eric's suggestions I went into Safari Preferences -> Privacy -> Manage Website Data and found a couple of entries that looked suspicious and related to Cloudfront. When I reconnected to the Internet and opened Safari all was fine.

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