I don't know what is going on with my mac. (10.9.5) Do I have a virus? What to do?
I accidentally clicked a link and downloaded something I did not mean to. I put in my administrators password and it downloaded. Now every time I click on Safari, instead of google as my home page like normal, it redirects me to this "Only Search" site which has a lot of ads and looks like a very shady evil twin of google. Also whenever I click a link, an ad pops up in another tab. I have pop ups blocked in my settings, I have also tried multiple times to change my home page back to google. But each time it changes itself back to the "Only Search" site. Computer is also being very slow and laggy. Do I have a virus or trojan? If so what do I do about it?
Click here and follow the instructions, or if you'd rather use removal software, download and run Adware Medic. The second link is a direct download; if it gives you an error message, see this page.
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