Unwelcome website hijack

Hi all, I am experiencing frequent problems with advertising websites hijacking the legitimate website I am working on. Sometimes I can overcome it by pressing the back button. Other times I have to quit safari and restart it using the shift+command option. More recently I have had indecent warnings come on screen and the only way to get rid of them is to press okay, then it gets even worse.
This happens on my Mac which is operation on wifi. It also happens on my iPad mini when using the wifi. Is it possible that the wifi modem has been compromised somehow and if so how do I fix it.
It's almost to the point of not wanting to use safari.

Nothing wrong with your modem or router. The sites you've been visiting have probably "gifted" you with malware. Download the free Malwarebytes from here and run it to identify and remove any malware you may have picked up.

Yeah, Malwarebytes should take care of that. But I believe the entire internet is being hi-jacked by commercial interests trying to sell stuff. Any time I do a search looking for information, the "top hits" are all trying to sell the "item" searched for, even if it's not something that can be bought and sold. It's becoming very irritating!

toMACsh said:

Yeah, Malwarebytes should take care of that. But I believe the entire internet is being hi-jacked by commercial interests trying to sell stuff. Any time I do a search looking for information, the "top hits" are all trying to sell the "item" searched for, even if it's not something that can be bought and sold. It's becoming very irritating!

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That's actually a paid advertisement. Yep, the search engines are paid, not only for the side links, but also to arrange the order of search returns.

Dysfunction said:

That's actually a paid advertisement. Yep, the search engines are paid, not only for the side links, but also to arrange the order of search returns.

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Yes, I know. That's what I call hi-jacked.

Thanks guys. I have downloaded malwarebytes and run it without finding anything. I am yet to follow the rest of the instructions when the first search doesn't work.

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