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Sorry if it was a bit long I wanted to delineate how I felt, my thought process and how it worked for me because I know malware on your devices can cause scary and tricky scenarios. The Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac app found it and after a scan, quarantine, restart, scan and another quarantine the issue was solved and doing further scans returned 0 malware. I noticed it before and tried to kill the process using the activity monitor but it started again afterwards. If you are wondering, the malware in question for me was webquestsearch.

I also gave it the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac app full disk access and no issues has been had for about a week now. It didn't work for my chrome browser but I decided to delete the browser anyways. I decided to trust the thread because of the fact that you were level 10 and that other solutions seemed inaccurate, however, I tried it out and I can say with utmost confidence it worked for my safari browser. I was skeptical of this post because the malware was downloaded because of mistrust in the first place and that the solution was to download something else which could have been more malware.

System Preferences and remove any Profiles you see.įor anyone who is skeptical of this thread and the solution.įirst of all thank you so much Eric for this solution. If something you don't recognize, see if you can replace it with something you want. Safari/Preferences/General - see what the Home Page is set to. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem. Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions, uninstall any you don't recognize, and then turn all extensions off. Get rid of Yahoo Redirect from Google Chrome. Erase Yahoo Redirect from Mozilla Firefox. Remove Yahoo Redirect from Microsoft Edge. Uninstall Yahoo Redirect from Internet Explorer I would scroll down to the below or you might fall asleep.

Do not download any other programs that are listed in the articles. If necessary, follow the manual instructions. After scanning a couple of times, restart the computer and test. It may be necessary to run more than one scan.