Think my computer (now off) is badly infected with Websearch. Am on my wife’s which is probably infected too as our home system is closely integrated, hopefully not so badly. Lately I have been doing lots of updates and connecting them often. However at the moment there are no real symptoms here. When I post this I will I will shut this down and only open every hour or so for vital communication - of which this site is pre-eminent.
It appears that its now deleting all mail about viruses and we use the same email accounts etc – I know but it’s too late for recriminations. So the emails from the notifications have gone. Luckily can still get thru on web.
Has also been making sure no new antivirus gets put on system, so it’s total restore (slit my throat) or manual fix if even possible.
Should I assume any attached hard-drives and the second partition on my imac with a test version of Yosemite is also infected? I will have to attach my back-up hard-drive here for attempting fixes (or my computer in disk mode). If Yosemite not infected that gives another option)
When I got logged in before you said this computer (which is using Safari) did not have the Online Security plugin. Downloaded and installed, quit and reentered Safari and still getting message. Do I have to restart? (Probably surplus question since shutdown is on the way. I don't think I had that comment - on my iMac in Chrome - after I registered last night.
I will have to attach my back-up harddrive here if I want to 'manually' fix. And the Yosemite partition could be ok if not infected.
Now I need to do some yoga or meditating, and start drawing up a real plan - shutdown in countdown.
Hoping for a reply soon, but when it comes is soon enough.
