How to locate and remove some malware I must've downloaded? A lot of pop-ups open on every page I visit and random words are highlighted in green and hyperlinked to ads(I have attached an example). I am running mavericks version 10.9.4. It occurs on all my web browsers and is not an extension - even a nortons anitvirus scan revealed nothing.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
In Safari - every time I click on something I get and adware redirect. How can I remove this?
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iMac (24-inch Early 2008), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
How do I remove text enhance adware from my mac?
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MacBook Air, iOS 5.0.1
I ran ClamXav after getting many popups and sites telling me my files were bein encrypted. Two infected files were found under the file name Funmoods Setup.exe and infection name Win.Adware.Installcore-366. How do I get rid of it? Do I just delete the files?
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The items listed below is what a virus scan found and could not be removed or quarantined. Most items could not be found thru finder or the go to folder feature. one item i did find and could not delete manually (notated below).
Threat: Adware.MAC.OSX.VSearch.B
Path: /Library/Application Support/VSearch/Agent/VSearchAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/VSearchAgent=>(Mach-O I386 ALL)
Threat: Adware.MAC.OSX.VSearch.B
/Library/Application Support/VSearch/Agent/VSearchAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/VSearchAgent=>(Mach-O x86-64 ALL)
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during os x maverick install on i mac requesting administrator password. where can i locate?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I've uninstalled appdelete as I now use cleanapp. Anyway, I have uninstalled it but the contextual menu is still present. I have tried looking at the services and libraries but cannot locate the specific item needed to be deleted to remove the appdelete contextual menu item.
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link: [URL]
We have somehow downloaded some adware which we would like to be rid of.
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MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2014), iOS 7
I believe to have adware/ malware on my mac book pro. How do i get rid of this? Software?
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MacBook Pro
I have installed Clamxav on my Imac,it has found an adware infected file ,is this possible on Mac.do I need to worry.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I am having a problem getting out of an adware popup screen. It won't allow me to click out of it or open up a new tab on my Safari. I have attached a pic.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
how to remove themes from mac ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedBack in the day I installed Growl on an iBook G4 running Tiger. I tried to delete all of the application, but when I reboot now, I get a window asking me where to locate GrowlHelperApp. Any way to get rid of this? I'm now on a 2012 iMac now running 10.9.4.
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MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), Intel Core i7, 8 GB DDR3, 120 GB
all i have a question how to remove update iMovie i deleted imovie.
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Basically i want to copy system files only (using CarbonCopyCloner) to ssd and leave the rest of my data (music, films etc) on hdd.
I started with installing a blank system to my new ssd. Then Im about to copy all folders from my current HDD, excluding some big ones that I want to store on hdd.
So my question is: am I doing it right? Won't any hidden files be missing after this kind of migration?
I have spam coming in designated as VIP's. They seem to have self designated themselves as VIP's. How do I change their status to non-VIP? I can remove them from the VIP folder but new mail from the same source is still designated VIP. Is there a folder somewhere that contains a list of VIP's?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), iMac7,1 (24-inch Mid 2007)
the reason i am here in this one to one conversation its because my ipod got stolen on a Wedsnday; to be exact February 15th. I was in my third period class, which was gym and when i went to go look for my ipod since we had free choice of exercise, i didnt find my ipod but my headphones were in my bag, and my phone was there to. By a suprise where i left my ipod, they took out everything that was covering the ipod and just left my pink headphones. I'm here because i would like to replace my ipod.I know my apple id account, and password. I have the app locate my ipod.Sadly i couldnt locate it because it wasnt turned on.
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iPod touch, iOS 5.0.1, black ipod, 4th generation
How do I remove an application icon from my desktop? I tried moving it to finder and I tried deleting it; nothing works.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy set up is that I use Mail with 5 separate accounts, downloading all messages using POP. I keep ALL my mail (even the trash) so that I have a permanent record of all conversations, going back more than 10 years - this is about 250,000 emails in around 250 subfolders. I'm running the latest version of Mavericks on a 2010 MBP. I have no intention of moving to IMAP - I need to keep a local archive of all my mail.
A few months ago I was having problems with Mail being very slow to load and search emails. I decided to rebuild the mailboxes, but afterwards discovered that thousands of messages in the inbox of one of my accounts (and some of the sub-folders) had disappeared. Once I realised I tried to go back to a recent Time Machine back up, but, for whatever reason, that part of the back up hadn't worked properly and I was unable to recover the previous status. I left it while I decided what to do, and had time to deal with it...
The last 2 years worth of emails on that account were still archived on gmail, so last week I decided to try redownloading the whole lot (something like 72,000 messages), and then planned to use one of the scripts I was aware of to remove the duplicates to the trash, and then remove any duplicates in the trash forever. That ought to mean I at least had an archive of the last two years of missing messages, even if I had no record of which ones had been flagged or replied to, etc.
The downloading took about 24 hours to complete, and I now have almost 70,000 messages in the inbox of that account. I also rebuilt all the folders again, which doesn't seem to have resulted in any further loss of messages as far as I can tell. However, I hadn't figured on two things:
1. Mail 'hides' duplicate messages, meaning that all of the messages I've downloaded are showing as unread, and I can't differentiate the ones I already had in my Inbox, and the new downloads. When I click on those apparently unread messages I can see if they have been replied to or forwarded, etc, but there's no obvious way for me to remove the ones I have already dealt with to the trash, without going through them all manually, which is clearly impossible.
2. The scripts I'd found for removing duplicates don't work. Andreas Amann's Remove Duplicates script doesn't work under Mavericks, and he has abandoned the project. I've also tried the remove-duplicate-messages.scpt [URL] ...., and while it *sometimes* works on individual subfolders on my Mac (but as far as I can tell removes the duplicate in that folder, rather than the newly downloaded version), mostly it doesn't work at all - it creates a 'Remove Duplicate Messages' folder on my desktop, a log inside it and a folder for removed messages, but nothing appears in the duplicates folder.
So, I'm left in a position where I have 70,000 apparently unread messages in my Inbox, a massively bloated Mail library (which has pretty much doubled in size, because of the 'hidden' messages), a slow and unresponsive Mail program. I've come to the conclusion that there must be some corrupted email somewhere, which probably caused the original email haemorrhage, and may still be causing the inability to remove duplicates. Mail is so slow as to be almost unuseable.
I figure I have a number of options:
1. I could live with the situation and just archive most of the Mail in my inbox, with the side effect that there will be a bunch of messages I have never replied to that are missed.
2. I could abandon the last week's efforts and revert to the version of Mail I was using a week ago, and then redownload the recent emails from my various accounts. That would still leave me without those thousands of emails I lost on my local machine.
3. I could find another way to deal with this. Can I get the remove duplicates script working? Should I revert to the version of Mail from a week ago, download ALL the messages again, but do it in a way that allows me to find the duplicates and remove them? Should I move to another email program altogether (which would presumably be massively disruptive to my work!)
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
I just realized my Archive.mbox (~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes) is quite big (8.5GB) and I decided to remove old mails with large attachments.
As I use GMail account via POP3, first I removed mails from the Google account and I freed up about 1.5GB extra space. Later, I searched for mails with attachments in Mail.app, then sorted then and started to remove and emptied the trash. This operation was quite weird as some of them where moved to the Trash folder, some not. As I was controlling the space of the Mailboxes folder this is what I noticed:
- Archive.mbox - the size of the mbox didn't change.
- Deleted Messages.mbox increases while removing another mails then decreased while wiping it out (this is what I expected).
I removed a lot of mails and didn't free up ANY space!Also, while googling I found out about "Mail Downloads" folder which is moved from Library to ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads. As I set "Remove unedited downloads" to "When Mail Quits" can I simply remove all subdirs from this dictionary to save some space? This folder is only used for copy of attachments, right?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
How do I remove locked items from trash? I want to delete unneeded (duplicate) backup files that were on an external disk. I have not succeeded using empty trash or secure empty trash. I am the administrator. Mac OS X (10.9.3) Mavericks.
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In Mavericks, how do I remove the security exemption from a non-approved app, having used ctrl-click to open it?
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
How to remove "Ads by Media Player" using Chrome? Online solutions are for Windows.
Having relentless pop up ads which open new browser windows.
I struggle reading text set in serif fonts and I wonder if there is a way to get rid of them altogether. I don't want to see them in the browser, in PDF, or anywhere else. For example, when Safari opens a page requesting
pt-serif-1, pt-serif-2, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
can make my system report the first two options as unavailable or pretend that they are by rendering Helvetica under that name? at the browser/style level or system-wide.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
