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Basically going through Safari Prefs I saw this:

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I've tried using Onyx to clear Safaris Cache's otherwise I have no idea what's going on here, is this particularly important? Please advise.

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In a way yeah, if you use Safari a lot to browse, it keeps a list of "naughty sites".

Do you use Little Snitch or some other outbound filtering firewall that might be interfering with the update?

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Yea, mine says it hasn't been able to update for 2 days. That's a far cry from 19, but it's still perplexing. :p

Edit: Scratch that. It just updated.

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Check your hosts file to make sure there isn't anything wrong in there

If you don't know how to easily do that, open TextEdit, press CMD+O, type "/" and enter "/etc/hosts".

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Can't see anything unusual in hosts, but I copied it into here just to be sure


##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
[/CODE]

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That all looks fine.

edit:

A couple of long shots:

- repair permissions, in case you've somehow lost write permissions to wherever that information is stored

- change your DNS (to say, the Google one) in case something has gone wrong at that end

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It says 20 days now, I'm getting concerned

With all the recent malware on mac osx popping up, I'd ensure your protection is working. I'd be a good way to reinfect you if they disabled the site checks.

If that is how they infected you originally. Not saying that you are, but best to check anyway.

Also, I assume it downloads a small list of sites it knows are dodgy since it was last updated. So maybe the cache of that is broken. Have you tried going into the hidden files and seeing if there is anything there that can be related to it, move the files/folders and try again.

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Which files are directories does this involve?

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