Most of the time, when being redirected to sites like Findgala, tracking999 or Gossip Center (just to name a few I’ve seen recently), users will try to Google the symptoms and will find multitudes of references to “viruses.” However, these things are rarely caused by malware of any kind in reality. (I hear a lot of comments like, “I Googled it, but all the instructions were for Windows users!”) So what is a Mac user supposed to do when faced with such problems?įirst, it’s important to understand the root cause of such problems.

Reports of these kinds of issues are becoming increasingly common, and confused users don’t know how to handle it. Unfortunately, this is now spreading into the Mac world. Windows users have been plagued for years by malware and junkware that causes their web browsers to redirect to undesired pages, advertisements to be injected in web pages, changes to the home page and search engine settings and other undesirable behaviors.

Eliminating browser redirects and advertisementsĭecember 6th, 2012 at 9:53 PM EST, modified