Hola, I downloaded a program the other day from CNET (OmniDiskSweeper) and although the program worked fine, I am now plagued with constant MySpace video ads while browsing on Chrome. I have searched and found only slight workarounds for PC's but nothing to cure this issue on a Mac. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I was curious exactly what junk this installer puts in a computer so I ran it on a virtual machine.
It appears that you can disable the adware but it's not an obvious option by any means.
It adds a bunch of Safari Extensions and changes the home page and then it downloads the original disk image from OmniGroup. So sleazy.
You can easily remove the extensions by opening Safari preferences and clicking on the Extensions tab.
The installer also changes your home page and search to Yahoo which you can reset under the general tab in Safari preferences.
Remove all of these:
There is also a folder in your home folder/Library/Application Support called Spigot that should be removed.
