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Safari Virus Pop Up Closes App

Usually shortly after loading Safari it says: "Congratulations! Safari is now up to date! Click Close to continue". It closes and when I reload Safari it is in a small rectangular shape and the page is set to some "extensions page" which I assume is fake. I can hit my home button back to yahoo and it all seems fine. Also, it keeps popping up a new tab about the need for virus protection. I close that out before it loads and it stops for a while but keeps doing it periodically. Please help. Thanks. User uploaded file

Mac Pro, iOS 12.1, Safari Virus

Posted on Nov 23, 2018 11:01 AM

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User profile for user: JimmyCMPIT
JimmyCMPIT
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Posted on Nov 23, 2018 11:31 AM

Quit out of Safari and relaunch it while holding down the SHIFT key


you may want to check your mac for malware, I suggest using Malwarebytes

malwarebytes.com

and for futher analysis you may post an Etrecheck report. The link is http://www.etrecheck.com

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