When I opened Safari back up the same controlling pop ups appeared. I was able to force quit the app. I ran another scan, which came up clean. I even scanned the Safari app.
After doing some Googling, I held down shift while launching Safari from the doc. Safari opened like normal & I cleared history & all website data. Is there anything else I can do to know if there are embedded malware files in my system? Thank you, Traci > On Feb 11, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Ray Foret Jr <rforet7...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Most likely, you ran across a piece of web malware which, had you attempted > to interact with it, it would have infected your system. YOu seem to have > taken the correct action. I myself was hit by such an attempt not too long > ago. When I clicked on a site, I heard a very loud 1KHZ tone and got an > alert message saying that because of a third party application, my unit was > infected and to call a number to get help. Of course, I knew better and was > able to get out of it. Seems to me there's more and more of this stuff > popping up every day. > > Good for you for taking the action you did. > > > Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in > > Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, > > Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice Guidance, Mac, Verizon Wireless > iPhone6+ and Apple TV user! > >> On Feb 11, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com >> <mailto:our4p...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Okay, this is a first for me on my Mac. I went to the site IX Converter >> .com to convert a video, and all sorts of pop ups appeared when I clicked >> convert. I could not get out of them. An audible message kept repeating >> about a security threat & call this number. >> >> I forced shutdown my Mac, waited a minute, then started it back up. I >> opened ClamXav, updated definitions & ran a scan. I don’t know the ins & >> outs of this app, so not sure how thorough the scan was, but it came up >> clean. >> >> Do y’all have further suggestions to ease my mine. I’ve never had a >> security thing like this on my Mac. *A little freaked out. ;) >> >> Thanks so much, >> Traci >> PS. 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