xjlu · July 7, 2014 20:20
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 I accidently installed some adware from Genieo, and I tried to remove all files but still the safari's address bar search is still defaulted to genieo.com. Google pointed me to this apple support page: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6021681, which is mainly for people who are not tech savvy.

 Here is how I fixed it, and it's mainly for people who are comfortable with command line stuff. The culprit is that geneio installed a /etc/launchd.conf, and override some environment variable. Here is a link from thesafemac.com: http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-genieo/. 

 Note that on that page, it's HIGHLY recommended to remove/change the launchd.conf file before changing other files, otherwise the computer may freeze or fail to start due to missing files.

 A quick fix is to sudo open the /etc/launchd.conf (should be a oneline file), then remove the line referring to /usr/lib/libimckit.dylib or simplify remove this file. A restart should fix the safari search bar issue. You may also want to remove those files listed on the thesafemac page, too.
	I accidently installed some adware from Genieo, and I tried to remove all files but still the safari's address bar search is still defaulted to genieo.com. Google pointed me to this apple support page: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6021681, which is mainly for people who are not tech savvy.

	Here is how I fixed it, and it's mainly for people who are comfortable with command line stuff. The culprit is that geneio installed a /etc/launchd.conf, and override some environment variable. Here is a link from thesafemac.com: http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-genieo/.

	Note that on that page, it's HIGHLY recommended to remove/change the launchd.conf file before changing other files, otherwise the computer may freeze or fail to start due to missing files.

	A quick fix is to sudo open the /etc/launchd.conf (should be a oneline file), then remove the line referring to /usr/lib/libimckit.dylib or simplify remove this file. A restart should fix the safari search bar issue. You may also want to remove those files listed on the thesafemac page, too.
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