Anyone good with Macs? I did a stupid thing...

LINY4Runner

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So I'm up in Syracuse helping my girlfriend's sisters move out and they already disconnected the cable. I was trying to watch the F1 race online and I found a site that said it was possible. Clicked the link. Now I'm getting popups like crazy and every word on a webpage is a link which gives another pop up to another ad.
I have a 2007 Macbook running 10.7.5

I ran ClamXav to no avail. Looked for something to uninstall but I'm lost in a Mac. If it were a PC I would have easily found and eliminated it.

Any ideas guys?
 
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I don't recall the exact steps on Lion (10.7) but I'll walk you through the steps to take on Mavericks (10.9), which are close but not exactly the same if I remember correctly.

Under Safari in the Menu Bar you'll see Preferences. When that window pops open after you select it there are a number of options at the top. Under Security you'll see Web Content and the option to Block Pop-Up Windows. Enable that. Next hit the Privacy tab at the top of the Preferences window. Hit the Remove All Website Data tab. An option below that is Block Cookies & Other Website Data. Enable that.

As I recall, the steps and nomenclature will be a bit different under Lion (sorry but I don't have a Lion system to verify the procedure), but it shouldn't take much effort to figure it out. Everything will be in the Safari Preferences though.
 
your problem description is kind of vague.

It sounds more like a browser issue.

Download Chrome for MAC. Install it and see if that solves the browser issue.

BTW many many many many of those sites that claim to offer illegal (or at least unofficial) streaming of television sports are infected with malware and exist for the sole purpose of infecting suckers. Most of the sites don't even actually have streaming, meaning it will never work, it was just a trick. Their whole purpose is to get you to install an application they told you to download that supposedly will "enable streaming" but what it really does is let them take over your computer (yes even MACs) and start doing bad things like spreading malware or stealing your identity using keyloggers.
 
You may also want to run CCleaner for mac. Also you can download and install a 30 day trial of ESET NOD 32 for OS-X. Run it and see if that helps.

I don't know what the MAC OS version of Maleware Bytes is but that is what you want to get.
 
Which browser are you running?

It may be a browser add-on or extension that somehow got installed.
 
So... First and foremost you did a stupid thing, you bought a Mac Product! (not that Windows 8.1 is better, I despise it on my Laptop, which is why my main computer runs Win 7 until I find out how to obliterate that horrid Metro UI 100% from the computer and not just a stupid fake start button program... So yeah, no love for Mac and not much more for Windows these days...)

Now that I have that off my chest, you have infected you Mac with some Malware, Virus, and/or distasteful little bugger. Yes, Macs get infected; no they are not invulnerable to disease as many Mac lovers try to vehemently defend. The reality is that they have been getting bugs for over half a decade now (I had a key logger steal log in information for my email about 5 years ago, which is when I started learning more about how very false the "safe Mac" Propaganda is... thankfully they didn't get my bank account info.) The reason is because with the unfortunate surge in popularity of products like the iPhone and iPad, Black Hats and other distasteful programmers have been coding for Mac OS more regularly. Its basically a Supply and Demand deal, the demand for more Mac Products has gone up and they are more common, so now the guys who make Malware, Spyware, Viruses, and other nasty Software Bugs are justified in spending the man hours to program for it.

I would do what the link says and get some good solid software protection for your Mac, AVG is a good program I use on my own computers. Their free version is pretty good if you don't want to spend the money on a license, it just doesn't have the extra protection features beyond scanning & cleaning. I would also recommend you try and avoid those websites unless you do some research and learn how to root out nasty bugs like that, some of them somehow manage to live even after you do a full re-install (had it happen once, was very frustrating.) I would also try and use something like Google Chrome for web surfing or even FireFox (used it in place of Safari on my old Macbook) as they seem to do better about rooting out those bugs before they latch on, or at the very least warning you ahead of time.
 
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