Jul 12, 2018  My safari has been hacked i think. Nothing i get a message that my safari cannot verify identity of - Answered by a verified Mac Support Specialist. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. Aug 30, 2017  1. If Safari has been hijacked then use this method. Open the Activity Monitor. Find Safari in the list of running processes. Double click Safari and a window will open that will allow you to kill the Safari process. You can also select command-option-esc on.

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The quickest way to get out of a persistent popup that won’t go away (unless you do what it demands!) is to quit or force quit* the browser then restart Safari holding down the ‘Shift’ key.

Holding down Shift allows Safari (or any other app) to restart without resuming its last state.

While this is a great, fast way to solve the problem, it can be annoying if you had other tabs open, and you don’t want to loose those too (or any unsaved data they may contain).

Here’s how you get rid of these kinds of Javascript hijacks without losing your other tabs.

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1. Go to Terminal and paste this command (it’s all one line):

defaults write com.apple.safari 'com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2JavaScriptEnabled' 0; killall Safari

This turns off Javascript and quits Safari.

2. Reopen Safari
You’ll get all your tabs back including the hijacked tab, but the pop up won’t appear, and you can now close the hijacked tab.

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3. Go to Safari Preferences and reenable JavaScript in the Security prefs
(alternatively you can do that in Terminal).
Don’t forget this step, or you’ll think the web is broken!

More sophisticated or persistent adware and malware attacks can be mitigated by using apps like my free App Fixer or DetectX.

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*You can force quit an app by pressing the following keys in combination on your keyboard <command><option><esc> then choosing the app you want to quit.