I strongly recommend using the Adware Removal Tool on http://www.thesafemac.com/art/. It's free, and filters off all adware on all (as far as I know) your browsers.
David Noel 2014 Aug 14 On 14 August 2014 13:00, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: > Has she installed Mac Keeper at some point ? > > On 14 Aug 2014, at 12:28 pm, Jon Davison <[email protected]> wrote: > > A friend of mine uses Safari 7.0.5, and she has hundreds of adds popping > up, all in their own window, they appear in the browser and windows behind > the browser. Often the address bar on these adds is 'Mac Keeper'. > To get around this, she used an open source add blocker ABP which seemed > to block some adds. For instance seven hundred and twenty adds were blocked > over two days. Now Safari is showing say up to 12 adds are being blocked > over 10 minutes. But others are appending in windows all the time. > > She has emptied the history and cache, plus cleaned the system with Onyx > and Disk Utilities. > > Mavericks OS 10.9.4/4GB RAM/2.3 GHz//MacBook Pro 2013/15" screen/ > > Any idea how she may stop this? or is this a virus issue? > > > Thanks > John > > *John W Davison* > Photographer/Art Director > Eye in the Sky Productions > 'The Corner Studio' > The Tresillian Centre > 21 Tyrell St > Nedlands > Western Australia > m: 0403 235938 > e: [email protected] > Facebook: jondcameraman > w: www.eyeinthesky.com.au > w: www.tresillianartists.org > Member: ISAP > (International Society for Aviation Photographers) > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > *Mac by choice* > *Windows because my employer knew no better* > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >
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