AdwareMedic →

Removes all known adware from your Mac. It is very simple to use, and should clean up your system in less than a minute, from start to finish. Just open the app, click the Scan for Adware button, and remove anything that is detected.

I have been using this in client situations with increasing regularity. Works great. 

But, this also should point out the fact that such things that we Mac users used to not even worry about are becoming increasingly common. In the past, the Mac was largely protected by its relative obscurity. As an adware developer, why even bother the manpower targeting a machine with less that 5% worldwide marketshare? Well, Macs are no longer in that position. As Apple grows, so does the size of the target. Sad but true.

(For what it’s worth, a program called Genio is the adware I most commonly run into these days. But it is far from the only one.)

(via onethingwell)