Possible malware - Help!

I need to be able to use the internet browser Opera. I downloaded it from the internet a couple of weeks ago and have not had any problems. A couple of days ago I started to get some suspicious "pop ups", I force quit the application, deleted Opera and reinstalled but I am not receiving pop ups that say "The server's certificate chain is incomplete, and the signer(s) are not registered. Accept?" I will attach an example. How do I remove this? And how do I safely run Opera in the future? Thanks so much!

There is a tool called AppleJack which is an open source free download from Source Forge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack/
It installs on the Root level and is accessible through a Restart holding down ⌘+S at the black screen. You will get a black screen with white text. Here you can type 'applejack" at the prompt and it will clean your caches as it undertakes the maintenance tasks. Before you use it, you could seek help from more experienced Mac users. There is also an app called Onyx which does the same job but is managed from the GUI level.

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Suspicious metadata suggests possible malware...

I have this really weird problem that just came up, and I don't know what to think except "malware?".
I run an old program called Business Sense using Classic. I have several copies of the application on my machine, and I recently noticed some strange behavior: if I open a Business Sense file (not the application directly), it opens the program (no problems). But if I try to open the application itself, the computer instead tries to open it as a file in Script Editor. Get Info reveals that the kind is listed as "application" instead of "Application (Classic)". The "Open With" panel shows up, and the Memory panel does not. Two copies of the program have this problem, and the other 5 or so do not. Other Classic apps do not have this problem as far as I can see. Sometimes the Business Sense icon changes to a weird "color glitch" square (sort of like TV noise but with color). If I use SetFileInfo (from the developer tools) to turn off the custom icon flag, the weird icon goes away.
Here's the really weird part. I used an Automator workflow that I cobbled together from macosxhints.com to view all of the metadata for the file (it uses the mdls command in the command line). The funky copies of Business Sense show this metadata:
*/Documents/BS Data/B $‚Ñ¢ 2.3 -------------*
*kMDItemAttributeChangeDate = 2007-11-25 19:33:02 -0800*
*kMDItemContentCreationDate = 1993-12-22 09:00:00 -0800*
*kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2007-11-25 19:33:01 -0800*
*kMDItemContentType = "com.prospa.manpage"*
*kMDItemContentTypeTree = ("com.prospa.manpage", "public.data", "public.item")*
*kMDItemDisplayName = "B $‚Ñ¢ 2.3"*
*kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2007-11-25 19:33:01 -0800*
*kMDItemFSCreationDate = 1993-12-22 09:00:00 -0800*
*kMDItemFSCreatorCode = 1112755795*
*kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 9472*
*kMDItemFSInvisible = 0*
*kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0*
*kMDItemFSLabel = 0*
*kMDItemFSName = "B $‚Ñ¢ 2.3"*
*kMDItemFSNodeCount = 0*
*kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 80*
*kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501*
*kMDItemFSSize = 411634*
*kMDItemFSTypeCode = 1095782476*
*kMDItemID = 208135*
*kMDItemKind = "application"*
*kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2004-12-11 16:34:45 -0800*
*kMDItemUsedDates = (2004-12-11 16:34:45 -0800)*
Don't mind the funky file name (it's named "B $™ 2.3" in the Finder). The weird part is what are in the ContentType and ContentTypeTree fields. For comparison, here's the metadata from one of the normal Business Sense applications:
*/Documents/BS Data/Empty DDS/B $‚Ñ¢ 2.3 -------------*
*kMDItemAttributeChangeDate = 2007-06-25 20:10:46 -0700*
*kMDItemContentCreationDate = 1993-12-22 09:00:00 -0800*
*kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2002-07-13 16:52:09 -0700*
*kMDItemContentType = "com.apple.application-file"*
*kMDItemContentTypeTree = (*
"com.apple.application-file",
"com.apple.application",
"public.executable",
"public.data",
"public.item"
*kMDItemDisplayName = "B $‚Ñ¢ 2.3"*
*kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2002-07-13 16:52:09 -0700*
*kMDItemFSCreationDate = 1993-12-22 09:00:00 -0800*
*kMDItemFSCreatorCode = 1112755795*
*kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 8448*
*kMDItemFSInvisible = 0*
*kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0*
*kMDItemFSLabel = 0*
*kMDItemFSName = "B $‚Ñ¢ 2.3"*
*kMDItemFSNodeCount = 0*
*kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 80*
*kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501*
*kMDItemFSSize = 408262*
*kMDItemFSTypeCode = 1095782476*
*kMDItemID = 208691*
*kMDItemKind = "Classic Application"*
*kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2002-07-13 16:52:09 -0700*
*kMDItemUsedDates = (2002-07-13 16:52:09 -0700)*
Whereas the normal one has metadata values one would expect ("com.apple.application-file", "com.apple.application", "public.executable", etc.), the funky one has a value that doesn't make any sense: "com.prospa.manpage"
Where the heck did that come from? I tried going to that website (prospa.com) and it's just a placeholder for a domain squatter. Interestingly, manpage.prospa.com does exist, and redirects to prospa.com. On that website, a contact address is listed: [email protected], but the words "contact us" to the right of that send the user to http://paty-poker.net/ which looks almost exactly the same as the first site.
A whois inquiry of prospa.com is shown below. It reveals that the owner is in South Korea, and lists a different contact email address ([email protected])
*Tue Dec 04 08:00 PM*
*cybertoothdog $ whois prospa.com*
*Whois Server Version 2.0*
*Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered*
*with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net*
*for detailed information.*
*Domain Name: PROSPA.COM*
*Registrar: CYDENTITY, INC. D/B/A CYPACK.COM*
*Whois Server: whois.cypack.com*
*Referral URL: http://www.cypack.com*
*Name Server: NS1.HOSTNAME.NET*
*Name Server: NS2.HOSTNAME.NET*
*Status: clientDeleteProhibited*
*Status: clientTransferProhibited*
*Status: clientUpdateProhibited*
*Updated Date: 12-jul-2007*
*Creation Date: 14-jun-2001*
*Expiration Date: 14-jun-2008*
*>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:00:42 UTC <<<*
*The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and*
Registrars.
*Welcome to CyDentity, Inc. dba CyPack.com's WHOIS Service*
*Domain Name: PROSPA.COM*
*Domain Status: LOCK*
*Registrar: CyDentity, Inc. dba CyPack.com*
*Referral URL: <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://www.CyPack.com*
*Domain Registration Date....: 2001-06-14 GMT.*
*Domain Expiration Date......: 2008-06-14 GMT.*
Registrant:
kimtaeho
*17-211, Maewol-dong, Seo-gu*
*Gwangju, Gwangju 502153*
KR
*Administrative, Technical, Billing Contact:*
*kimtaeho [email protected]*
*17-211, Maewol-dong, Seo-gu*
*Gwangju, Gwangju 502153*
KR
*(PHONE) +82-11-226-2899 (FAX) +82-62-603-0969*
*Domain Name Servers in listed order:*
NS1.HOSTNAME.NET
NS2.HOSTNAME.NET
I don't know Korean. I don't go to Korean websites. Where in the heck did my computer get the information to put "com.prospa.manpage" into the metadata of a random Classic application on my computer? I can't think of any reason that makes any sense other than malware. I looked up "com.prospa.manpage" and "prospa.com" on Google, Yahoo, and Altavista; nothing comes up for the first one, and nothing that seems relevant comes up for the second one. I also tried searching for "prospa.com", "com.prospa" and "prospa" in Spotlight - not a single result listed. Not even the funky Business Sense application.
Does anyone have any idea what this could be? I hate bringing up the idea of "malware", but that's the only thing that makes any sense to me. What else would it be?
So far, the only thing I could think of to do was to email the [email protected] address using a junk email account saying that I was "interested" in the prospa.com website. I just did that this evening, so I don't expect to hear anything back for a while - although I don't know what good it's going to do. Does anyone know how to report this to Apple directly?
Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated!

I figured it out. I feel sort of silly.
At one point, my son's PowerBook hard drive was connected to the computer. He had a spotlight importer called manimporter.mdimporter installed. Somehow, the file associations for that mdimporter got added to my lsregister database, so any file that ended in .[number] (such as B $™ 2.3) was seen as a man file. I re-indexed the lsregister database using the command found at the bottom of this macosxhints.com hint:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071014124330643
and that fixed the problem (perhaps this information will help someone with a similar problem in the future, like it did for me). I had to modify the search slightly, as just updating the database didn't get rid of the entry for manimporter.mdimporter. Using the following two variants seems to have returned everything to normal:
./lsregister -kill -f -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network -dump
+This one kills the current database and forces a new update of all possible domains. I also added a+ *> ~/file.txt* +to the end so that the dump command would load all the data into a text file that I could look at later.+
./lsregister -f -R /system/library/
+This one picks up things like .dmg and .zip. I don't know why those weren't indexed in the first command. This one gives a lot of errors as it encounters things like jpeg files, but it seems to be ok.+
I don't recall whether I had to run these commands as root or not. Anyway, I hope this helps somebody.

Possible Malware or Virus on IMac?

Today one of my family members visited the site Neopets, as she does almost everyday. What is strange is that every link she clicks on the site, be it for playing a game, checking contact information at the bottom of the site, starting a game etc,would cause a pop up to appear saying that we do not have the updated player. By pressing ok, it redirects us to a site called updateplayer.us. It is almost identical to the adobe/flash site which makes me believe that its some type of phishing scam. Furthermore, it will again redirect us to other sites, all similar but with different names (i.e. bamplay.net, and fatplay.net). These sites were identical to one another (bamplay and fatplay). So my question is, do we have a virus or malware on or mac? We have the lion OS. Everything is up to date, (flash player is 13.0.0.214) and our system updates are all up to date. We only download updates through system preferences/ software update. Other than pictures that we have recieved from friends and family, and the occasional pdf we download for school/taxes, the only downloading/installing we have done is from the system/flash updates. We don't visit any malicious websites and are fairly cautious internet users. This just started happening today for the first time ever, and it only appears to be happening on Neopets. Do we have a virus or malicious software installed? Everything else seems to be running fine. Safari still seems to be fast. Or is this something on Neopets end? I'm not very skilled with computers so any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
P.S.
Has anyone else who visits the site been experiencing this?

If Neopets requires Adobe Flash Player, always navigate on your own to Adobe's website and download the installer from them, and never from within someone else's website including this one. Fortunately, thousands of Apple Support Communities participants are here to rapidly respond to anyone's malicious intent.
Adobe's website is as follows, which you will be able to see for yourself exactly as it appears, in your browser's URL field:
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Ignore unexpected popups or solicitations to update Flash Player; they can direct you to fraudulent sites that will attempt to convince you to install malicious software, or to reveal personal information such as your Apple ID credentials.
Or is this something on Neopets end?
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