How to remove genieo from my imac

How can I safely remove Genieo from my imac it installed itself when I downloaded an upgrade for Adobe, but there are a lot of warnings about how it can mess up you Mac if you uninstall it the wrong way .... And if you use the uninstall from Genieo it adds other malware etc to your mac instead of deleting the original .......so I would appreciate any help on a safe secure way to get rid of this program
Thanks in advance
Gillian71

Hi again andyBall-uk,
sorry I have taken so long to get back to you, but to be honest I am feeling a bit out of my depth with this, the more I read the safemac info the more I become anxious that if I do start to try and follow the advice given and make a wrong move I will be deeper in the mire, I can't afford to render my imac unusable, and am beginning to wonder if I should just put up with Geneio but just don't use safari by way of a compromise, I have been using Firefox instead and it seems to be fine if I do this, but if I use safai the Geneio newsaper style home page comes up, so I just don't go down that route any more at the moment, as I mentioned in my original post I am not very well versed in the imac at the moment I am still very much feeling my way, however I did follow your advice part of the way, by looking in Finder -Get info and it came up with this info on the last file update I have on Adobe Flash and this is it, I hope this is what you were looking for
Created: 10April 2014-11.14
Where From:http://alhdownload.adobe.com/bin/live/
AdobeFlashPlayer_13au_ltosxd_amc_aih_dmg
lastopened 10 April201411.15
Name and extension: AdobeFlashPlayerInstaller_13au_ltrosxd_amc_aih.dmg
I hope this is what you wanted!!
but I did not execute the part of starting the removal yet for fear of makin a mistake
Thanks again for your help
regards
Gillian71

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