Oh Paul & Walter, Paul, I never allow anyone to use my computers... even in another user account and never let them download and install things. Never install anything on your computer before you know "How to uninstall it correctly & every component it installs on your system"!
Walter, "Genieo" is a fraud, and the developer knowingly distributes an uninstaller that doesn't work. Go to this link and follow explicitly all the instructions by Linc Davis. <https://discussions.apple.com/message/25265077#25265077> Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 29 Apr 2014, at 5:50 pm, "F.W. Hänel" <whae...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > Hi Ronni and Paul, > > I also installed Genieo some time ago and then used the uninstaller to remove > it. But some components could not > have been removed because now when I enter something in the web address line > Google no longer launches but Genieo > and that only lists hits from advertisers. I would like to remove the > leftovers but don’t know how. When I came across > the thesafemac info a few week ago I did not follow it as I had already > uninstalled the main Genieo stuff and did not know > where to continue. > > Cheers, > Walter > > >> On 29 Apr 2014, at 17:05, Paul Willemse <pjwille...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Ronni, >> >> Sorry, forgot to mention it but I did try the Save Mode and it still gave >> the same problem. >> >> I had forgotten about the Console App. When I started the Console App on of >> the first things that I noticed was an entry about an installer for an App >> called Completer.app. >> >> Some research showed this to be the bad one! It is part of a lot of stuff >> installed by a rogue app by Geneio Innovation. >> >> FURTHER RESEARCH PROVED I SHOULD NEVER LET GUESTS USE MY COMPUTER, THEY >> DOWNLOAD STUFF THEY HAVE IDEA WHAT IT IS FOR. It was downloaded about two >> weeks ago. >> >> In this case all it managed to install is the browser extension, fortunately >> it crashed the Mac before it installed the other almost twenty files! The >> only thing I don't understand is why it only tried to install starting >> yesterday... >> >> Here is the URL with all the info: http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-genieo/ >> >> So, thanks for the assistance, as usual I would be lost without your expert >> help! >> >> Regards, >> >> Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
