27-12-2017 14:00 via macworld.com

What to do when a scam site takes over your Safari homepage

Scammers try all sorts of ways to convince you that something’s wrong with your Mac and that only by calling “Apple” (it’s never Apple) via a phone number on screen and paying some outrageous amount of money can your computer be “fixed.” In some cases, websites can seemingly hijack Safari in macOS, making it impossible to bypass a page.Macworld reader Antonella encountered one variant: a printer dialog appears whenever she launches Safari. The phone number of
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