Hi Severin Yes, that's probably the one I posted back for David in June. /quote > From: Daniel Kerr <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Adverts on browsers > Date: 27 June 2014 5:52:41 PM AWST > To: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Hi David > > One thing to check if you may have picked up some of the "adware" add ons > that' hide themselves to be other things. > There's a bit of them around pretending to be this that and the next thing, > so people download them. (they're also quite largely found hidden some times > in a lot of torrent files as well). > Have a look at this site where you can download a little script to check - > http://www.thesafemac.com/art/ /end quote
Though it's not actually called that anymore, it's now called Admedic. You can get it from the same site (Which is a great site and worth looking at,.. www.thesafemac.com The new version can be downloaded from here - http://www.thesafemac.com/admedic/ Hope that links helps as well. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 11/09/2014, at 5:55 PM, Severin Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > -- 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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