I, perhaps unwisely, installed iFunBox
based on an article in a respected Computer Magazine APC
.
This appears to have installed a Search Engine in my browsers.
It was easy to remove from Firefox
, but I can't seem to delete search.strtpoint.com
from Chrome.
Safari now crashes whenever I run it.
Any ideas on how to fix these problems?
EDIT
I have managed to fix Chrome.
Best Answer
I think I have solved my problem.
I got an exception from
Safari
which suggested "External Modification Warnings: Thread creation by external task."I found many references on the web (most for Windows) and some suggesting going to
Safari\Preferences\Extensions
and turning off. I wasn't even going to try those which suggested I install yet another app from the web.Seeing as I could not even start
Safari
the above was not useful. I could startSafari
in Safe mode, but there was nothing there - possibly because when it originally wanted access to all my private data I refused.Activity Monitor
showed anInstaller
and this had~/Library/Application Support/com.genieoinnovation.Installer/Completer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer
open. I deleted this directory. Unfortunately this did not fix the problem.I tried @Buscar웃 suggestion, but this only found references to old preferences in Firefox and Chrome, which I had already fixed.
I then tried
sudo mdfind com.genieoinnovation
and found the following.Deleting all these seems to have resolved the issue.