getting rid of searchmapsnow.com
How did this get on my MAC OSX and how do I get rid of it. Sometimes Yahoo shows up. I have deleted from search preferences Yahoo but cannot get rid of searchmapsnow.
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Looks like you've got malware, which you will of course need to get rid of.
Go to the 3-bar menu (or 'Tools') => Addons => Extensions and look for any unfamiliar or suspicious looking extensions. When you find any : remove them.
Also look in : 3-bar menu (or 'Tools') => Options => Advanced => Network tab => Under : 'Offline Web Content and User Data'
However : most malware will be 'hiding' somewhere , so let's run malware scans :
Further information can be found in this article :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware?cache=no
Run most or all of the listed malware scanners.
They all work differently - what one program doesn't pick up, the other might.
Especially for Mac : https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/
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Solution choisie
Looks like you've got malware, which you will of course need to get rid of.
Go to the 3-bar menu (or 'Tools') => Addons => Extensions and look for any unfamiliar or suspicious looking extensions. When you find any : remove them.
Also look in : 3-bar menu (or 'Tools') => Options => Advanced => Network tab => Under : 'Offline Web Content and User Data'
However : most malware will be 'hiding' somewhere , so let's run malware scans :
Further information can be found in this article :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware?cache=no
Run most or all of the listed malware scanners.
They all work differently - what one program doesn't pick up, the other might.
Especially for Mac : https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/
What great advice. I downloaded malwarebytes. Immediately it took care of being sent to places I did not want to go. It always seems to be Yahoo! Makes me never want to go to anything with a Yahoo name.
Forgot to mark response as CHOSEN SOLUTION.
Thanks for such a quick response.