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Safari is locked up with a message from www.mac-securities.com

I installed avast antivirus and scanned found two items and deleted Then:

From: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7061442

MAC-SECURITIES.COM

Safari is locked up with a message from www.mac-securities.com stating that I have a phishing 
problem with a phone number to call. 

Quit the application. Force quit if necessary.
Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock. ( This will prevent 
windows from the last time Safari was running from reopening

Reported Phishing Website Ahead. Another popup then tells me to call 1-855-267-4256

Removal of Adware Popups (Unknown name)

Install Sophos and scan

Uninstall Sophos

Install Avast and scan : bingo on this one - removed the bothering stuff

From: http://en.kioskea.net/faq/40005-mac-os-x-adware-removal-procedure-popup-ads-banners

Some free tools

To remove adware from your Mac, download and install the following tools:

AdwareMedic by Safe Mac: http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php

Adware Removal Tool by Bitdefender: http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/adware-removal-tool.html

AdwareMedis

From: http://www.thesafemac.com/arg/

AdwareMedic will scan your system and help you remove any known adware automatically. 
software/apple/macvirus.txt · Last modified: 2015/07/07 03:37 by superwizard