My safari home page keeps changing

Hi,
recently I think I have a spyware problem on my macbook pro. Every time I open Safari it changes my homepage to 'my-search' and then I also keep getting mac cleaner popping up. I don't have mac cleaner on my mac (I have looked in the applications) and I have also disabled extensions (there were no extensions on safari either). Lot so people keep saying reset safari but I can't see how you do that. It is certainly not on the safari menu.
Please can someone help me before I throw it out the window

There is no need to download anything to solve this problem. You may have installed a variant of the "VSearch" ad-injection malware.
Triple-click the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
/Library/LaunchDaemons
In the Finder, select
          Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
A folder named "LaunchDaemons" may open. Look inside it for a file with a name of the form
          com.something.daemon.plist
Here something is a variable word, which can be different in each case. It could be "cloud," "dot," "highway," "submarine," "trusteddownloads," or pretty much anything else.
There may also be a file named
           com.something.helper.plist
in the same folder.
If you find files with names that fit the above description, post what you have for "something."

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