Safari redirected to giveaway site (free IPAD etc.), cannot reset home page

On a new (3 day old) IMac Safari is automatically opening with a 'Giveaway' site that I cannot for the life of me eliminate. It looks like I may have picked it up when I accidentally misspelled Google when I was setting my homepage. Now I cannot reset the homepage, and I assume this site uses the misspelling as a gateway to load whatever it is that is causing the redirection, Scanning with ivirus, McAfee, and Norton has not resulted in detection. Any ideas or help?

As for your homepage, try troubleshooting the Safari plist file.
Quit Safari if it's open.
Open a Finder window. Select your Home Folder in the Sidebar on the left. It has a small house icon. Then open the Library folder then the Preferences folder.
Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop.
Launch Safari. If you can set your home page now, move that .plist file to the Trash. If not, move it back to the Preferences folder.
If that didn't help, from your Safari menu bar click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 7 boxes, click Reset.
FYI... Norton / Symantec has been the cause of Safari crashing for years. Try a search in this forum to see the results. If you insist on having a/v software installed, keep McAfee but try uninstalling Norton. Most users end up having to erase the hard drive and start over. One a/v software installed is one thing, but two is overkill and will slow that brand new Mac drive down to a crawl. Scanning for a virus won't do any good. There aren't any Mac viruses.
It's probably Norton that is causing the re directs or your ISP.
Good article here > http://www.reedcorner.net/guides/macvirus/

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