Quizstope has hijacked safari on my macbookair running Lion - I deleted the .plist file, the cache, and it is still there

Safari on my macbookair running Lion has been hijacked by quizstope - followed the advice to clear the cache externally - did not eliminate it - erased the .plist file in the Preferences folder of the Library - again no help in getting rid of quizstope. Any advice?

Same issue here > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3163105?start=0&tstart=0
Force quitting Safari helped there.
Click your Apple menu icon top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click Force Quit.
You can also force quit apps using Activity Monitor located in /Applications/Utilities
And make sure your have: Block Pop-Up Windows selected from the Safari menu bar. Safari > Block Pop-Up Windows

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greetings!
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this problem manifested after i added some more .ai and .ase files to my swatches directory. i do not believe anything else changed.
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an option would be to try remove each added swatch file or folder individually, but this would be a very very time consuming process for me.
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thank you
-s

s,
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Usually, preference corruption probably occurs randomly, caused by the OS, but if something in your files change the preferences to something that is not viable you will get an error like that.
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If the error is persistent, the cure would be to get rid of the offending things in the files you work with.

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Hai
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