Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
how to reinstall OS x
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1632293"><p>Your system is the victim of some malware that came in through your browser or that you installed yourself somehow. Get AdwareMedic (search for it) and clean out the adware malware that is creating problem number 5. Then get Ghostery or Adblock (search again) to keep it from happening again. Using the backup from your MBP to restore the MBA just transferred all the crap, so both will need to be cleansed and possibly reformatted/reinstalled. </p><p></p><p>If you make a backup with TM and then restore ONLY your documents, that should clean out the malware, but make sure you install and use AdBlock and Ghostery once you have done that. Somewhere you went, something you downloaded (a "helper" or "codec" or "manager" or "cleaner" or "speed up" software has brought all the junk with it, so don't reuse any of that. All you should EVER need are AdwareMedic, Adblock, Ghostery and Onyx. Those will do all the "helping, speeding up, cleaning and managing" you'll ever need.</p><p></p><p>Once you have the backup made, hold CMD+R as you reboot and you should be able to boot the recovery partition and from here reinstall Yosemite. You'll need to hold CMD+R through the entire boot process, as I recall. You can then download Yosemite again and reinstall it. Then you can restore just the data (no programs or utilities) from the TM backup and you should be ok. You'll need to repeat the process on both the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air, so you may want to make a bootable USB stick with the installer to avoid having to re-download. You can search for how to do that, there is a utility that will make it for you automatically, but I'm not sure in your current situation you have enough control over either machine to actually accomplish it successfully, so you may well have to download Yosemite installer twice, once for each machine.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Dang, Harry beat me by a minute! I have start typing faster or saying less...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1632293"] Your system is the victim of some malware that came in through your browser or that you installed yourself somehow. Get AdwareMedic (search for it) and clean out the adware malware that is creating problem number 5. Then get Ghostery or Adblock (search again) to keep it from happening again. Using the backup from your MBP to restore the MBA just transferred all the crap, so both will need to be cleansed and possibly reformatted/reinstalled. If you make a backup with TM and then restore ONLY your documents, that should clean out the malware, but make sure you install and use AdBlock and Ghostery once you have done that. Somewhere you went, something you downloaded (a "helper" or "codec" or "manager" or "cleaner" or "speed up" software has brought all the junk with it, so don't reuse any of that. All you should EVER need are AdwareMedic, Adblock, Ghostery and Onyx. Those will do all the "helping, speeding up, cleaning and managing" you'll ever need. Once you have the backup made, hold CMD+R as you reboot and you should be able to boot the recovery partition and from here reinstall Yosemite. You'll need to hold CMD+R through the entire boot process, as I recall. You can then download Yosemite again and reinstall it. Then you can restore just the data (no programs or utilities) from the TM backup and you should be ok. You'll need to repeat the process on both the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air, so you may want to make a bootable USB stick with the installer to avoid having to re-download. You can search for how to do that, there is a utility that will make it for you automatically, but I'm not sure in your current situation you have enough control over either machine to actually accomplish it successfully, so you may well have to download Yosemite installer twice, once for each machine. EDIT: Dang, Harry beat me by a minute! I have start typing faster or saying less... [/QUOTE]
Verification
How many occurrences of a n-u-m-b-e-r between "d" and "f" in this example...(sdgs6ngklu3gd#f9%)?
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
how to reinstall OS x
Top
