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I gather from some of the comments that I can now just Trash AdwareMedic.app and there's no point in running it???
Yup, I don't advise using AdwareMedic any longer. It won't detect much recent stuff - in fact, can't, because of some of the shenanigans some adware companies have been engaging in to prevent detection. (It became an escalating arms race that ultimately necessitated having daemons running as root to prevent adware from preventing detection or disabling the software. Adware on the Mac is the real menace... it's by far the most sophisticated stuff you can get infected with. Mac malware, in comparison, is usually pretty lame.)
Plus, there are vulnerabilities in AdwareMedic that could be used by malicious code to escalate to root privileges. Be glad I'm just directing development, and not writing the code for Malwarebytes for Mac. I suck at writing production-ready code!