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I am unable to get rid of a Bing redirect malware(?) in Safari.

I have a MacBook Pro 2013 running Yosemite. Recently I noticed a malware redirect to Bing in Safari. There are no extensions showing in Safari for me to remove. I've cleared history, emptied caches.

Also I searched in Applications> Utilities for any recently updated items that I did not update. Nothing.


Any ideas on how to remedy this?

Thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 10:26 PM

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Oct 11, 2018 12:52 PM in response to Eric Root

Thanks for your suggestion. I went through all of this, but could not find any extensions, suspicious applications, search engines etc. in Safari or my applications.

I did notice in Applications > utilities that there was a recent "Adobe Flash Player Install Manager" that I did not install from 2 days ago and wonder if it is suspicious. When I tried to delete it, It asked for my password in order to delete "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this." Which seems suspicious to me, so I didn't do it.
Am I being overly paranoid, or is this a normal Mac OS prompt when deleting an "install manager"?

I am unable to get rid of a Bing redirect malware(?) in Safari.

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