Had a website with a pop up re: an unresponsive script, clicked ignore/discard and it locked up Firefox. Restarted it and it locked up again. Force quit it again and now I get tons of pop ups and advertisements on every page I open.

Point me in the right direction please
Rain

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Seems to be system wide - does it in Safari too.

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SaveOnMac ????

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Odds are that the "unresponsive script" was from something evil that you've previously installed. Macs are mostly immune to malware spread by pop-ups.

Hard to say exactly what it is from the description. If you're getting lots of popups then it's probably not Geneio, which is the most common Mac malware out there right now.

What extensions do you see in Safari's pref's?

What extensions and plugins show up when you look at your add-ons (Tools > Add-Ons) in Firefox?

It's funny how most of the sites with instructions on how to remove "SaveonMac" are Windows specific.
This one isn't:
[www.fixyourbrowser.com]

I just helped a friend last weekend with this. It was a script that installed extensions on firefox and safari. I can't remember what it was called. You should be able to check the extensions in the finder for each browser.

I'm having a similar problem but only on Firefox. I'm working my way through add-ons to find the cause.

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Had a website with a pop up re: an unresponsive script, clicked ignore/discard and it locked up Firefox. Restarted it and it locked up again. Force quit it again and now I get tons of pop ups and advertisements on every page I open.

Point me in the right direction please
Rain

Reset Safari. Will lose history,bookmks,etc. recoverable. Posting from hospital bed-no worries,but awkward to type.

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I think I will just put an OUT OF ORDER
sticker on my head and call it a day.

1.2 million files scanned

68 infections
Should I track down each of these files and delete them?
The App won't let me do it as a batch.

a screenshot of the results:
[picasaweb.google.com]

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Ah, I re-read your first and last post.

mm, hope all is ok.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

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1.2 million files scanned

68 infections
Should I track down each of these files and delete them?
The App won't let me do it as a batch.

a screenshot of the results:
[picasaweb.google.com]

what program did you use to scan?

Avast!

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"Something Nasty" as a common phrase has a very specific origin: Stella Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm". It is usually expanded to "I Saw Something Nasty In the Woodshed", with the word "Nasty" drawn out as far as possible, and spoken in the lowest possible register.
[en.wikipedia.org]

Although the book is generally regarded as a very well done parody of a certain kind of English rural literature, it is also a Science Fiction parody, set some two decades in the future, after the "Great Anglo-Nicaraguan War".

I highly recommend the book and the BBC TV and movie adaptations.

Eustace

Take great care when uninstalling Genieo. They've deliberately placed what amounts to a "bomb" in the product that will prevent your Mac from successfully booting if the product is not removed in exactly the right way.

These are the instructions for removal:

[www.thesafemac.com]

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Take great care when uninstalling Genieo. They've deliberately placed what amounts to a "bomb" in the product that will prevent your Mac from successfully booting if the product is not removed in exactly the right way.

These are the instructions for removal:

[www.thesafemac.com]

That's a heck of a read - thanks

Genieo is hateful.

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I'll check it out!

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"Something Nasty" as a common phrase has a very specific origin: Stella Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm". It is usually expanded to "I Saw Something Nasty In the Woodshed", with the word "Nasty" drawn out as far as possible, and spoken in the lowest possible register.
[en.wikipedia.org]

Although the book is generally regarded as a very well done parody of a certain kind of English rural literature, it is also a Science Fiction parody, set some two decades in the future, after the "Great Anglo-Nicaraguan War".

I highly recommend the book and the BBC TV and movie adaptations.

Eustace

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