Lawnboy18
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Hi Lawnboy,
In answer to your original question I think you may have a malware infection from securepaths.com
It sounds similar to a problem I had on my Mac and it was a pig to get rid of - my normal antivirus prog couldn't even find it.
My research suggested that whilst it may not be malevolent it is certainly irritating, and in cases where "lovely ladies" pop up unexpectedly, it could leave you with some explaining to do if it happened in view of someone else. [blush]
The purpose of this malware is to redirect mouse clicks, often from Google or Bing searches, to sites that are paying it for those cheeky redirects.
I eventually found ClamXav recommended on the Apple forum - its a malware removal tool available from the App Store and their own website. It found the malware inside two emails that had been deleted months previously in MS Entourage. However, removing them was difficult and somewhat technical. (There's a ClamXav forum that has help on this.)
During my search for a solution there were hundreds of people asking for help on this particular malware but nowt of much relevance to the Mac community. After weeks of (on/off) research this was the only solution I could find.
Best of luck with it.
Chris
Shropshire, England
Thanks a lot for that info! I will look into that also!