Digital Payday page automatically opens in Safari

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Digital Payday page automatically opens in Safari

I have Safari Version 11.1.2 on a Mac running High Sierra (version 10.13.6). Digital Payday web page automatically opens in Safari. It is not a pop-up window but automatically appears on the tab bar. I have never visited this site. I contacted AppleCare about this issue. The tech told me to do the following in Safari: (1) check extensions (none were there), (2) clear history, (3) delete cookies. Checked the Applications folder. No suspicious apps. Deleted Trash. Restarted Mac. I downloaded Malwarebytes and ran a scan. 8 threats were detected and remediated. I deleted the quarantined files. This morning, Digital Payday was once again open in Safari. I ran Malwarebytes and no threats were detected. Has anyone had this issue? Thx

IMAC (RETINA 5K, 27-INCH, LATE 2015), iOS 10, Safari

Posted on Aug 30, 2018 7:52 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 30, 2018 10:42 AM in response to BetZ1771

You have checked Safari > Preferences > General > Homepage ??

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Eric Root

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Aug 31, 2018 7:29 AM in response to BetZ1771

The only other thing I can think of is to go to Safari/Preferences/Websites and disable all plugins. Then Preferences/Security and disable Javascript. Close all tabs/windows, then quit/reopen Safari and test.

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Eric Root

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Aug 30, 2018 10:46 AM in response to BetZ1771

Safari – Home Page see post by thomas r.

Home Page Locked - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8058186

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BetZ1771 Author

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Aug 30, 2018 12:18 PM in response to Eric Root

I think this will likely solve the problem. I remember seeing truehearttravels.com (database) when I contacted AppleCare about the issue. It was there again today. I did as you suggested and deleted the files from Library/Safari/Databases. Thanks so much for the instructions and the reference articles!

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BetZ1771 Author

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Aug 30, 2018 11:16 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thx for your reply. I did check Safari > Preferences > General > Homepage and my home page is the search engine I want to use. I forgot to put the URL for Digital Payday in my original post. It is digital-payday.net. Digital Payday does not appear in Safari's Smart Search bar. Somehow a webpage is opened for Digital Payday and it appears as a new tab. The Digital Payday page opens after I have another webpage open. The only way I know the page is open is when I look at the list of tabs.

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Eric Root

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Aug 30, 2018 12:13 PM in response to BetZ1771

Check Safari/Preferences/Privacy/Manage Website Data to see if there is a cookie for that web site. If there is, see below.

As the 2nd article points out, they are capable of regenerating after deletion with files that go to many parts of the system.

Safari/Browsers – can’t delete cookies

Evercookie

The myth of the dangerous cookie

Quit Safari.

In Finder go to Go menu and then Go to Folder.

Copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/Databases.

Delete the contents of the folder.

Launch Safari again and check if all is ok.

If that doesn’t work, copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage.

Delete the contents of the folder.

Then go to Safari/History and delete any entries for the related websites.

Test.

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BetZ1771 Author

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Aug 31, 2018 7:02 AM in response to Eric Root

I thought I would provide an update. It's back... I left my Safari browser open overnight. This morning when I looked at Safari window and Digital Payday was there again as an open page. The following pages were open also: Yahoo, Google. (

I had purposely opened Yahoo and Google.) I went through the steps you outlined on Aug 30 at 12:18 pm again today. There were no files in the /Library/Safari/Databases or in /Safari/LocalStorage.

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BetZ1771 Author

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Sep 2, 2018 5:59 AM in response to Eric Root

Digital Payday opens a tab at random times. So I have to wait to see if it opens. I turned it off for Adope Reader. For Adobe Flash Player it is set to Off for all sites. Thanks for the continued support. I'll let you know what happens.

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Answer 9

Sep 5, 2018 3:37 AM in response to BetZ1771

I keep getting this too, have tried everything to get rid of the page opening in a new tab on Safari. This is the page https://digital-payday.net/, its well and truly hijacked my browser. Really not sure what to do now, have tried the suggestions on this post and have installed Avast to see if that clears it out.

Welcome anymore suggestions!

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