Good advice from Apple on how to remove Advanced Mac Cleaner malware
My Mac has been a clean playing field, but for the first time in six years, I've got spam from Advanced Mac Cleaner...I wonder who these miserable sad sacks are.
Here's the guidance I found on the Apple User Group sites that allowed me to clean this horse dung off my login profile.
Here's the guidance I found on the Apple User Group sites that allowed me to clean this horse dung off my login profile.
Be advised this procedure applies only to the "Advanced Mac Cleaner" version available as of this writing.Like all similarly categorized Mac "cleaning" products, "Advanced Mac Cleaner" is a scam whose only purpose is to coerce you into spending money. To remove it read below. If you have questions regarding a file you're not sure about removing, ask.
- Quit the app it if is running. Select "No Thanks" when harassed to purchase it.
- Open your Mac's Applications folder, and drag the Mac Adware Cleaner icon to the Trash. A popup window may open when you do that, pleading for you to reconsider. Just close it. Do the same if a browser window opens.
- Then, hold an Option key while selecting the Finder's Go menu. Select Library. Locate any folders bearing the following names, and drag them to the Trash. Not all of them may be present.
- Advanced Mac Cleaner
- Mac Adware Cleaner
- hlpramc
- hlprawc
- Then, locate the LaunchAgents folder, and open it. Inside there will be files containing the name adwarecleaner, hlpramc or hlprawc. Not all may be present. Drag all of them to the Trash.
Removing all its remnants is optional. If you wish to do that, continue below.
- Return to the Library folder (you can use the "back arrow" button to do that). Open the Application Support folder and open it. Locate any folders with the following names, and drag them to the Trash:
- amc
- awc
- Advanced Mac Cleaner
- Mac Adware Cleaner (You will be asked to authenticate).
- Then, return to the Library folder again (back arrow), and open the folder named Preferences. Locate all files containing the names Mac Adware Cleaner, adware, adwarecleaner or pcvark, and drag them to the Trash.
- Return to the Library folder again (back arrow), and open the folder named Logs. Locate all files containing the names Mac Adware Cleaner, hlpramc, hlprawc, and drag them to the Trash.
- Return to the Library folder again, and open the folder Saved Application State. Locate all folders containing the names pcvark or Mac Adware Cleaner, and drag them to the Trash.
- Open System Preferences > Users & Groups > select your User Account > Login Items. Select the item named Mac Adware Cleaner, and click the [—] (minus) button to delete the now nonexistent program from your Login Items.
- Log out or restart your Mac.
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