Many thanks David. I will give it a try! Severin Sent from Sev's iPad
> On 11 Sep 2014, at 5:27 pm, David Noel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Severin -- > > -- I had a similar problem a couple of months ago, and somebody else brought > it up on WAMUG recently. It's actually nothing to do with Safari, instead it > is an adware creature which happens to have attacked Safari first. Left > unattended, it will spread to your other browsers. > > -- After doing some investigation, I solved the problem for myself by > installing TSM Adware Removal Tool (free). There are other possible > solutions, but I am happy with the one used. > > Cheers -- > > David Noel > >> On 11 September 2014 16:50, Severin Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >> Suddenly this afternoon Safari started to act up. Looking at my own >> websites, I have several, it was as if words had been highlighted and made >> into links which then gave popups telling me how too earn money and the >> like. I notified Westnet who checked and reported no malfunction and >> suggested it was browser related. Sure enough, no worries with Google >> Chrome or Firefox so the sites themselves are clean. I guess I need to >> purge Safari. It is only on my own sites and Safari is fine on outside >> sites. I am really puzzled here, what is special about my sites? >> Has anyone else encountered this. Started this afternoon, was fine this >> morning. I use Intego and NetBarrier is set to block everything and virus >> barrier has reported nothing during realtime scanning. >> Severin Crisp >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys >> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia >> ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) >> mail to: [email protected] >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> -- 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> > > -- 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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