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MacKeeper ( mackeeperapp.zeobit.com) has hijacked my Safari browser. I have had to open Firefox, in order to get to the internet. I would rather use Safari, since that is where my bookmarks and favorite links are on the toolbar. A MacKeeper ad was in the sidebar, of the page I was on. I clicked on a link, to go to a website (not MacKeeper), and the window opened for MacKeeper, with a pop-up to let MacKeeper clean my Mac. The ONLY option is to click 'OK', which I refuse to do, because I know almost all of these 'cleaner' apps are malware, with hidden stroke counting codes.
The box says >>>RECOMMENDED DOWNLOAD. @slhck: Thank you for your comment. I am 100% positive I didn't click on the link, for MacKeeper and didnt click OK. My husband was standing next to my chair, when it happened. I was in Yahoo Mail, and had clicked on 'sign out', so I could go to his yahoo email. As soon as I clicked on 'sign out', the MacKeeper site opened with the pop-up box. I did try opening Safari, going to 'Safari' ->Reset Safari.
I used to be able to Force Quit for Safari, but now even that is locked up. I can't get the Safari drop down to go away and hence can't click on the black apple, to force quit. – Mar 2 '12 at 19:20 •. Thank you for your comment. I hear what you are saying about Javascripts, but am so worried about allowing my computer to be hacked.
I have a lot of personal info on it, and can't afford to have anyone get at it. I know that%&!# hackers and producers of malware have gotten extremely sophisticated, and can do a lot of nasty things in the background, where you aren't even aware they are lurking. As I mentioned in my previous comment, all of my Safari functions are locked up, so doing a Force Quit isn't possible. – Mar 2 '12 at 20:49 •. Hi @slhck, Thanks for the suggestion.
I did look in that location, and the most recent posting to the Plug-Ins is: JavaAppletPlugin.plugin on Feb 28, 2012, 80 Bytes Type: Alias. Since I don't know much about plugin's does this look suspicious? There are six others, but they go back to 2011, and they all seem to be legit. I finally was able to speak with my daughter, who designs websites and is my webmaster, for my Blog. She thought MacKeeper, probably already put codes on my computer. She said, if they can lock up your Safari, they had some kind of access to your computer.
– Mar 3 '12 at 5:30. As the other sources (and comments here) have said, clicking OK isn't enough to cause trouble.
Even if they get you to download the MacKeeper installer, you still cannot be forced to actually install the software. But if you really don't want to even click OK, there are a few ways out. Free Video Converter Without Installation Art. Here's one: • Quit (or force quit if necessary) Safari • In the Finder, hold Option while pulling down the Go menu and select Library. (Note that the Library choice only appears while Option is held down.) This opens your user Library folder, which contains all sorts of settings and config files. • In the your Library folder, open the Saved Application State subfolder. • Inside Saved Application State, find the com.apple.Safari.savedState subfolder.
This folder contains information about open windows and tabs, to allow Safari to reopen them automatically. • Move the com.apple.Safari.savedState folder (and only that folder) to the trash. • Reopen Safari. It should come up with a single window, showing your default start page (if any). Your bookmarks etc should be intact, just the open windows and tabs (including the obnoxious MacKeeper one) should be gone. Per slhck's request, I will try to explain what I did.
As several people suggested, I tried to 'Force Quit', to get out of Safari, and get the MacKeeper tab to close that way, but was not able to do that, because Force Quit was grayed out, and unclickable, while MacKeeper had the JavaScript requiring me to click OK was on the screen. After asking questions on two forums, I decided to install an antivirus (AV) app on my computer. Prior to that I had not done so, because I had read that Apples were safe from viruses.
Well, now I am not so sure, since MacKeeper was able to hijack my Safari browser, after it opened a tab, without my permission. The AV that was recommended to me was AVAST. Once I had installed the most current version, of AVAST, there was a message, on the confirmation page, that my computer was now protected. Given my recent experience, I am not sure I can believe any of that type of app, but decided I had to take a chance, since my Safari was unusable, unless I went ahead and clicked on OK, in the JavaScript box. I checked my app list in Finder, and there wasn't anything for MacKeeper listed. Someone had suggested to click on the hard drive in Finder, and then open the Library, to see if there were any MacKeeper files there.
I checked and there were none. I ran the virus scan. And it didn't appear to have found any viruses, so I finally clicked on OK, with the intention of closing the MacKeeper tab immediately. When I clicked OK, it was like it had a mind of it's own.
It all happened so fast, it was a bit confusing. The appearance of the website page change, but I was so shocked by what I saw in the address box, I didn't really see what it looked like. What I saw in the address box, was that mackeeper. Com/ instantly changed to a long string of numbers and letters and symbols. I panicked and immediately tried to close the tab, by clicking on the black 'x' in the left corner of the tab. It took three tries to finally get the tab to close the page. Once I had calmed down, I went back to Finder and checked for MacKeeper again, both in my App folder and in the hard drive Library, but didn't find it.
After I had done all that, I was told that ClamXAV was better than AVAST. So, I did some research and decided it wouldn't hurt to double check AVAST by running another AV app. Well, ClamXAV actually found about 50 Trojan Horses and other viruses, that AVAST had not found. Since I am not well versed in the different types of viruses, I don't remember which ones now. Interestingly enough, a split second after ClamXAV found the Trojan Horses and other viruses, AVAST found them, and alerted with a pop-up.
I figured if ClamXAV had found all those viruses, and AVAST didn't find them until ClamXAV had already found them, I didn't need AVAST. So, I uninstalled it. I was finally able to spend some time on the phone with my daughter, who said she hasn't used Safari, for about eight months. And here I was using it, because she said she was using it and liked it better than Firefox.
She said she changed because she found that Chrome worked better for her, with her web design other technical web applications. New Mgi Photosuite 4 Download Deutsch 2016 - Download And Reviews. She said I probably didn't need Chrome, but that Opera might work better for me, and she thought it might be a bit more secure than Safari. She was thinking that since Safari is the official Apple browser, hackers might be working a little harder to crack that nut.
So, I downloaded Opera, and have been learning all the ins and outs. It seems to be a good browser, and in some ways it is better. For instance: On Safari, I haven't been able to find a way to have sub-folders to folders in my bookmarks. Opera is a bit different in the way you set up your bookmarks, but I like the way you can set up sub-folders within sub-folders. That is important to me, since I do a lot of medical research, and need to be able to finely delineate modalities. All in all this has been a nightmarish experience. I know Apple sells MacKeeper on their App Store, but for the life of me, I can't understand why they would sell an app, that has such a wide reputation for being malware.
Given my experience with MacKeeper attaching itself to my browser, when I never wanted anything to do with 'cleaner apps', and never clicked on anything, to even look at it, it is just devious. Besides, from what I have read it doesn't do anything that Apple hasn't already installed on the OSX. Before I go, I would like to give a shout out to the IT geeks that tried to help me with my problem (especially slhck).
I wouldn't have had the courage to go ahead and try to work through this without their help. Thanks Guys!!! As the other sources (and comments here) have said, clicking OK isn't enough to cause trouble. Even if they get you to download the MacKeeper installer, you still cannot be forced to actually install the software. This is potentialy false. THe current revision of this particular peice of malware attempts to install itself, and only AFTER failing to do so automatically prompts the user for help, if you hava Java installed you can be automatically infected.
It sounds like the author is infected despite what they might think happen. Thanks for your suggestion, @Gordon Davisson, Yes, I am sure it was MacKeeper. I have never used or heard of Flashback, and it is not on my App List.
This is the second time, I have had an app automatically run itself on my computer, w/out my permission. The last time was back in early 2000, when I was on AOL, and they charged by the minute.
I closed AOL, but left my computer on, before I left the house. The time log showed that it turned itself back on about an hour after I left the house, and ran until I got home 3 hrs later.:( GRRR!
AOL wouldn't take the charges ($123) off. – Mar 3 '12 at 6:01 •. The dialog that is shown is simply a JavaScript alert. This is not an answer on how to close an abusive page on Safari, but for Chrome there are some ways. As they're not obvious at all and might work in other browsers too, here goes: • Click the browser window to give it focus (rather than the popup dialog) and use Chrome's File menu. (One cannot close the tab using the mouse, nor using any keyboard shortcuts.
But once the browser window has focus, its File menu does work. As long as the dialog has focus, all menu items are grayed-out.) • Or: type a different URL in the abusive tab to simply go to another page. • Or: focus the browser window and use the Chrome task manager (menu Window, Task Manager) to kill the tab. After that, the dialog will still be visible, but clicking OK won't do anything. Try for yourself. (As an aside: Firefox shows that with an overlay on the source page only, and then shows that page with full control.
Firefox itself does not take focus, nor makes its dock icon bounce though. Internet Explorer shows a close icon, which is effectively the same as clicking OK. And I very much agree that there's no security issue with such dialogs—anything that can be done after the dialog was shown, could be done without it as well. So: simply clicking OK might be easiest, maybe quickly followed by pressing Esc to stop loading whatever page is loaded next.).