Redirects of Safari and ransom sites

Within the last few days my iMac was prey to redirects and popups of websites of ransom.  Redirects are all trying to read stories of legitimate websites like CNN.com, etc..  When I click on a link to read a story, I see the random URL displayed in the address line of safari and I'm taken to various random websites that is loaded with advertising and other nonsense.  I also have more than my share of 'popups ransom' as well as the Truvi homepage set as my default home page in safari.  I tried to address this problem by using the techniques described in the messages of support, but nothing seems to work.

I also downloaded Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and followed the instructions to scan my system, remove malware that we found, restart, but the problems remain.

I am running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and Safari 9.1.1, which I've updated to the last level yesterday.

I read articles saying me to search the LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons folders and remove suspicious files, but I'm not sure what are these files and if I delete them.

The contents of the directories is as follows:

~/Library/LaunchAgents

~/Library/LaunchAgents/ [email protected]- SharedServices.Agent.plist

~/Library/LaunchAgents/com. Spotify.webhelper.plist

Library/LaunchAgents

file:///library/LaunchAgents/com.Google.keystone.agent.plist

file:///library/LaunchAgents/com.Oracle.Java.Java-Updater.plist

Library/LaunchDaemons

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.abbreviatory.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bija.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.Calkin.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.Chlorococcales.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.communistic.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.endocrinologist.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.Google.keystone.daemon.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.Malwarebytes.MBAMHelperTool.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microdistillation.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.Microsoft.Office.licensing.helper.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.Oracle.Java.helper-tool.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.prepatellar.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.pretemporal.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.retrogastricUpd.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.unbridged.plist

file:///Library/LaunchDaemons/com.unfortifiable.plist

I'm at a loss as to what to do next and what to do to prevent this problem from occurring in the future.  If there is more information I can provide, please let me know.  Some suggestions on best practices for the Safari preferences would be also useful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

There are a few weird plists in your LaunchDaemons folder. Could you post the content of each?

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