If youre using 10.6 or older, youll have to remove the bad stuff by hand, and its a chore (I know, Ive done it). Note: AdwareMedic is now Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for the Mac.
Heres how you get rid of it: you use the excellent AdwareMedic, shown below.
If your Macs web browsing is full of pop-up ads that you cant get away from, your Mac probably has adware.
Others, such as Vsearch, try to hide in the background, hoping you wont find them so you wont be able to remove them. Some adware, notably Genieo, tries to convince you that theyre doing you a favor. The people who create adware are looking to get paid, and get paid they do every time one of their advertisers ads is shown. Its important to get rid of it, so even though Ive brought up adware second, Im going to tell you how to fix it first.Īdware is designed to inject ads into everything you view on the web, even if the original page didnt include ads. This kind of ad comes from adware, a very close relative to malware. Which home page header do you prefer The standard one, with ads Or the cleaned-up one, without ads I think I know the answer.īut first we need to talk about a different kind of ad the kind that takes over your browser, changing your search engine and home page.
If theyre made with Adobe Flash theyre even worse, as Flash ads shorten battery life, make your Mac run hot, and sometimes make it crash. Plus, sometimes they cover up what you want to see, forcing you to click to make them go away, and sometimes theyre sneaky and invisible, taking you to websites you didnt intend to visit. Worse than that, they slow things down, because they have to load (that is, they have to come to your Mac from a server, over your internet connection). There are roughly a billion active websites, and whichever ones you go to, I am positive that you arent going there for the ads.Īds distract from the information we are looking for when we visit websites in the first place.
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