Last night, I started getting pop-ups everywhere, all throughout my Ebay and Amazon screens, there were ads hovering over everything, and simultaneously new screens kept opening. My computer was infected bad. I downloaded "Malware Bytes" and did a scan, it found one virus and I deleted it. I also updated my homepage to google (which kept being reset to another homepage by the virus), I have no extensions so I didn't worry about that, and I also deleted the following files off my drives:
~/Library/Preferences "com.apple.Safari.plist"
~/Library/Saved Application State "com.apple.Safari.savedState
~/Library/Safari "LastSession.plist"
Afterwards I reboot (a few times), it didn't work, so I did all of those steps 3 times, and opened Safari using command shift at reboot. Finally nothing seemed to work. Ads everywhere.
I then downloaded "Avast Mac Security" and did a scan. It found about 8 viruses on my computer, then I wiped them clean. I thought wow THIS IS IT!! So I started using my browser as usual, now no more hover ads over Amazon or Ebay, but NOW I have this hidden malware. It hides in my links and every link I click, it opens a new ad in a new tab, window, or my current window. Usually they're just ads for anything, and the link first loads as the name "prjcq.com" and are followed with the ad that ends with a different url. Some load fully into an ad, others just continue changing their url (about 12-30x) and I close it before it starts loading anything on the screen. Most of the time it happens when I click a link; however, sometimes new tabs are just popping out on their own. Attached are some photos of how the url and tab names are different. Thank you for your help.
I'm running OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.5 on 1.3 GHz
~/Library/Preferences "com.apple.Safari.plist"
~/Library/Saved Application State "com.apple.Safari.savedState
~/Library/Safari "LastSession.plist"
Afterwards I reboot (a few times), it didn't work, so I did all of those steps 3 times, and opened Safari using command shift at reboot. Finally nothing seemed to work. Ads everywhere.
I then downloaded "Avast Mac Security" and did a scan. It found about 8 viruses on my computer, then I wiped them clean. I thought wow THIS IS IT!! So I started using my browser as usual, now no more hover ads over Amazon or Ebay, but NOW I have this hidden malware. It hides in my links and every link I click, it opens a new ad in a new tab, window, or my current window. Usually they're just ads for anything, and the link first loads as the name "prjcq.com" and are followed with the ad that ends with a different url. Some load fully into an ad, others just continue changing their url (about 12-30x) and I close it before it starts loading anything on the screen. Most of the time it happens when I click a link; however, sometimes new tabs are just popping out on their own. Attached are some photos of how the url and tab names are different. Thank you for your help.
I'm running OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.5 on 1.3 GHz
