[digital dumbo]

so this mac defender is downloded on to my puter and I can’t seem to get rid of it. I’ve been browsing the net and already two sex sites have randomly appeared with no clicking. I’m being told that the system is infected but must purchase this mac defender to clean it up. I’m obviously not going to buy it but
I’ve no idea what to do?
Help!

[Swordmaker]

so this mac defender is downloded on to my puter and I can’t seem to get rid of it. I’ve been browsing the net and already two sex sites have randomly appeared with no clicking. I’m being told that the system is infected but must purchase this mac defender to clean it up. I’m obviously not going to buy it but
I’ve no idea what to do?
Help!

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If you have installed the MACDefender software, you should be able to uninstall the software by searching for and removing any references to "MACDefender" on your system. You may want to check the following locations for files that MACDefender may have installed:

• Applications folder: Go to the Applications folder (and subfolders like "Utilities") and remove any folder or application that is associated with MACDefender. List folder contents by date modified or created, to see if any files have been put there recently, and remove them.
• Login Items tab (system preferences/accounts): Go to the "Login Items" section of the Accounts system preferences and remove any reference to MACDefender in there. Do this for all accounts on the system.

  >Activity Monitor (Applications/Utilities): Open Activity Monitor and sort the list of running processes by name. Then locate any that you suspect are associated with MACDefender and force-quit them. Unfortunately this may be more difficult to do if the name of the running process is different than MACDefender, but it is worth a shot.

• Launch agents and daemons ((your user directory/Library and MacintoshHD/Library):Go to the following folders and see if any launch daemon or agent property list files reference MACDefender (open them and search through them if necessary). Do this for all files located in the following directories, but be sure you only remove the files that clearly are associated with MACDefender. If you remove others you will disable OS X features that may destabilize your system:

  /Macintosh HD/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
  /Macintosh HD/System/Library/LaunchAgents/
  /Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchDaemons/
  /Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchAgents/
  /username/Library/LaunchDaemons/
  /username/Library/LaunchAgents/

That should do it.