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Having issues with mouse click popups in my browser

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I'm being inundated with annoying new browsing tabs opening up to some random webpage ,usually an advertisement, every time that I click on a link on a page that I want to be in.

I'm being inundated with annoying new browsing tabs opening up to some random webpage ,usually an advertisement, every time that I click on a link on a page that I want to be in.

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You may have ad / mal-ware. Mac Malware Scanners https://discussions.apple.com/message/29938930#29938930

You can also try https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/index.html


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