This website "securepaths.com/pixel.cgi" keeps popping up on my chrome browser that I use on my 2013 iMac running mountain lion. I synced my chrome browser between my ipad mini and imac. While I was using chrome on my iPad mini, I noticed it showed that on my imac I had an open tab in chrome with the address securepaths.com/pixel.cgi. I had an issue with this website popping up a few days ago, so I woke my iMac up from sleep and saw on the chrome browser that no tabs with that address were open, so that bothered me. I remembered from a few days ago that same website kept popping up while I was using chrome, so I went to sleep and eventually the computer went into sleep mode as well. When I tried to wake the computer up the next morning by clicking the mouse and eventually typing on the keyboard, nothing happened. I hit the power button and it was moving EXTREMELY slow once the screen lit up. The computer has 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory and 3.1gz intel core i7 processor so its unusual that it would be slow. I saw that the securepaths website had opened probably 100 tabs on my chrome browser and so I closed them all, ran a AVG virus scan and it said no threats were found. In my chrome browser I have adblock, adblock plus, ghostery, and chrome bleed checker running at the same time. This securepaths.com website bothers me because all the antivirus scans that I run say they can't find any threat, but when I googled securepaths.com/pixel.cgi I found information saying it was a virus/malware that was able to steal personal information and track me. This has me EXTREMELY worried because I access my bank accounts, use credit cards, and had to upload a lot of sensitive personal information to sign up for obamacare on this computer. I would appreciate it if someone could help me remove this because the only removal instructions I could find were for Windows.
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