Picked up a virus?

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So I have apparently picked up something (probably from a Download from the web. I thought the site was secure, but…)

Randomly Safari will switch from whatever I select to:

http://search.anysearchmanager.com/?_pg=A3F0C266-4FAF-525D-99D1-4C10C8ADF3B0&affid=A0BZK_ext_bsf_T&type=t

Anyone have any ideas? Anyway to get rid of it?

I cleared history on Safari and restarted it. I thought it was gone, but apparently not.

Thanks in advance,

Sam

PS. My first posting on the new forum.

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Hi Sam,

Sounds like a Safari extension more than anything… check under Safari Preferences then Extensions and turn off the Anysearch Manager (or similar).

Cheers,

Dave

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What are you trying to select when this happens? Did it replace your homepage setting (in Preferences > General)?

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Dave -

There was a “Compete Search 1.0” there. I uninstalled it.

Let’s see if that took care of it.

Thanks!

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Jolin -

I didn’t replace my homepage setting, I’ll see if David’s suggestion worked. It wasn’t happening every time - just often enough!

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Dave -

So far so good. looks like you got it.

Thanks!

Sam

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You’re welcome!

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Although mostly for [unlucky] Windows users, this site might prove useful for tracking down viruses and malware:

The creators of the site contacted me to correct a very old, broken link about “worms” that I had on a DOS user group web page:
http://users.tpg.com.au/aoaug/oaug.html