Apple iMAC Help

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,955

Living In a Box

• Jun 30, 2014

• #1

Hello Good people,

I have a problem on my MAC where I seem to have an embedded program where going on the internet is keeps loading randomly a website called Dawngate (not porno). Also my adobe flash player seems to have stopped as I cannot watch videos off the BBC website.

And before you ask I turned it on / off and also re-set safari but still an issue.

 

8ace

Banned

Jul 21, 2003

23,811

Brighton

• Jun 30, 2014

• #2

Have you tried using a different browser

 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,955

Living In a Box

• Jun 30, 2014

• Thread starter
• #3

8ace said:

Have you tried using a different browser

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No, flash player back working but quite often when you open a web site it also opens the EA Sports Dawngate at the same time

 

S

staben94

New member

Jun 11, 2012

18

Greenwich/Hastings

• Jun 30, 2014

• #4

Try Google Chrome, sometimes Safari doesn't block what Chrome does.. Also I'm sure you've tried clearing everything on your browser!

 

Goldstone Rapper

Rediffusion PlayerofYear

Jan 19, 2009

14,865

BN3 7DE

• Jun 30, 2014

• #5

Try manually clearing everything in your Safari library:

Quit Safari.

Then, while holding down 'alt' key, go to the Finder > Go > Library

Then find username > Library > Safari and drag the entire folder to the trash.

Restart Safari and see how restored to new.

 

J

Joe Gatting's Dad

New member

Feb 10, 2007

1,880

Way out west

• Jun 30, 2014

• #6

Had a few problems after BT Internet went down the other day. Could not use Seagulls Player today until I re-loaded Flash Player. Also found quite a few cookies had disappeared and had to be re-set - e.g. online banking. Are you on BT?

 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,955

Living In a Box

• Jul 2, 2014

• Thread starter
• #7

Sorry to bounce but there seems to be some embedded issue I have as follows and only when using NSC and the BBC websites.

NB I also followed the Rappers advice which did not work.

Whenever I am using NSC or BBC website at some point another web page opens for either Dawngate and EA web page or William Hill opens as well. Is there something embedded as I have cleared cookies etc but still persists.

 

C

Cian

Well-known member

Jul 16, 2003

14,262

Dublin, Ireland

• Jul 2, 2014

• #8

Have you got any EA games installed that may be spawning browser windows?

There is malware for Macs, quite a bit at this stage, but I can't see more point in them opening EA related websites (Dawngate's an EA game); though the William Hill one might be.

 

Superphil

Dismember

Jul 7, 2003

25,416

In a pile of football shirts

• Jul 2, 2014

• #9

Put something like Sophos on it and run it, you might find it will find the malware causing this

 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,955

Living In a Box

• Jul 2, 2014

• Thread starter
• #10

Thank, just running a scan with Sophos and no EA games are loaded on this mac

 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,955

Living In a Box

• Jul 2, 2014

• Thread starter
• #11

Right tried that, ran the scan and found nothing should I load their malware or is mackeeper safe ?

 

Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...

Mar 18, 2010

29,778

Hove

• Jul 2, 2014

• #12

Beach Hut said:

Hello Good people,

I have a problem on my MAC where I seem to have an embedded program where going on the internet is keeps loading randomly a website called Dawngate (not porno). Also my adobe flash player seems to have stopped as I cannot watch videos off the BBC website.

And before you ask I turned it on / off and also re-set safari but still an issue.

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This site might help - http://www.thesafemac.com