In the last month my "supported sites" list of sites has been exclusively populated by a bunch of porn sites (probably more than 40) that I can't seem to delete
I have tried all of the suggestions to rid the "supported sites" menu of the porn sites. It seems that they appear in bunches (5 or more) on the same day all starting late last month. I would like to get rid of the list but am most concerned that there is some way that these appeared on my "list" without ever visiting them. Does this mean my computer has been hacked??
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Type about:addons<enter> in the address bar to open your Add-ons Manager. Hot key; <Control>(Mac=<Command>)<Shift> A)
Select Extensions, and disable Video DownloadHelper Restart Firefox.
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choconut2 said
Does this mean my computer has been hacked??
That is a possibility.
http://www.clamxav.com/ free malware scanner for Mac OS X https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3291
You can also try https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/index.html
What do you mean by a "supported sites" menu?
I have attached a screen shot with arrow of the icon in the Firefox window that calls up window "supported sites" (see the blue arrow). I would have a screen shot of that "supported sites window" but no matter what else I click on or if I use keyboard commands the window disappears. So I took a picture with a digital camera and attached that.
As you can see in the window with the "supported sites", all of the sites appeared at one time.
I would really like to find out how this happened. I jokingly tell people to stop surfing porn sites because bad stuff can happen and apparently it can happen even if you don't surf it.
When you place the mouse on top of the icon, what does it say?
I think that is an add-on.
Type about:support in the address bar and press Enter. Under the main banner, press the button; Copy Text To Clipboard.. Then in the reply box at the bottom of this page, do a right click in the box and select Paste. This will show us your system details. No Personal Information Is Collected.
When I mouse over the icon it says nothing but the icon changes hue and a bounding box shows that there are 2 parts to the icon. Left and right. (see first picture)
If I right click on the icon's left half it gives me some options. (see second picture) If I right click on the right half (a downward carrot) of the icon it does the same thing as a left click. If I left click on the right half/carrot I get the choices in the third picture.
I think you may be right about it being an add on/plugin/whatever.
Thanks for your help so far.
Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures. They were taken by a camera as I cannot take screen shots without making them disappear.
Below is the text of the "Copy text to clipboard".
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தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது
Type about:addons<enter> in the address bar to open your Add-ons Manager. Hot key; <Control>(Mac=<Command>)<Shift> A)
Select Extensions, and disable Video DownloadHelper Restart Firefox.
Thanks so much.
That fixed it.
Glad to help. Safe Surfing.