Finder window keeps opening up and popping up in front of all windows
Every minute or so a finder window opens and pops up in front of all open window - including the window I am working in (no matter which application). It does not even open to my regular finder - it opens to a sub folder that is on the sidebar as a shortcut. Might have started after security update that was not necessarily completed because after 6 hours I tried to cancel, then force quit, it wouldn't work, so I forced the computer to restart.
Hi Basie & welcome to the forums!
We should start with these...
Have you done these two lately...
Using Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later to verify or repair disks...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
Reboot afterwards.
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If you are having an immediate problem with ads popping up see The Safe Mac » Adware Removal Guide and AdwareMedic.
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The following comes from user stevejobsfan0123. I have made minor changes to adapt to this presentation.
Fix Some Browser Pop-ups That Take Over Safari.
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Quit Safari
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Relaunch Safari
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An excellent link to read is Tom Reed's Mac Malware Guide.
Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
See these Apple articles:
Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
OS X Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
OS X Mountain Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
OS X Mavericks- Protect your Mac from malware
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the most successful malware attacks rely on very sophisticated social engineering
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7. Only download anything from sites you know are safe.
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hello SDMcRoy, this sounds like some sort of adware/malware is active on your system. please try these steps:
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# afterwards go to firefox > addons > extensions and in case there are still extensions listed there, disable them.
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