Avast Remove Advanced Cleaner Scam Software That Purports

Do the equivalent in the Chrome and Firefox browsers, if you use either of those.

Avast Remove Advanced Cleaner Scam Software That Purports

Like any software that purports to automatically clean up or speed up a Mac, its a scam.

If you paid for the software with a credit card, consider reporting the charge to the bank as fraudulent.

Step 1 Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it: LibraryLaunchAgentscom.pcv.hlpramc.plist Right-click or control -click the highlighted line and select Services Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal ) from the contextual menu.

If you dont see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.

You wont see what you pasted because a line break is included.

Press return. Step 2 Move the following item to the Trash as in Step 1: LibraryApplication Supportamc This time you may be prompted for your administrator login password.

Step 3 Move this item to the Trash: LibraryAdvancedMacCleaner Step 4 Open the Applications folder and move an item named Advanced Mac Cleaner (if its present) to the Trash.

Empty the Trash. B MacKeeper is a scam with only one useful feature: it deletes itself.

Note: These instructions apply to the version of the product that I downloaded and tested in early 2012.

If you have incompletely removed MacKeeperfor example, by dragging the application to the Trash and immediately emptyingthen youll have to reinstall it and start over.

IMPORTANT: MacKeeper has what the developer calls an encryption feature.

In my tests, I didnt try to verify what this feature really does.

If you used it to encrypt any of your files, decrypt them before you uninstall, or (preferably) restore the files from backups made before they were encrypted.

As the developer is not trustworthy, you should assume that the decrypted files are corrupt unless proven otherwise.

In the Finder, select Go Applications from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-A.

Click the Uninstall MacKeeper button in the dialog that appears.

All the other functional components of the software will be deleted.

Let MacKeeper delete its other components before you empty the Trash.

Dont try to drag MacKeeper from the Dock or the Launchpad to the Trash.

C You may also have installed one or more of the common types of ad-injection malware.

Its been reported that some variants of the VSearch malware block access to the page.

If that happens, start in safe mode by holding down the shift key at the startup chime, then try again.

One of the steps in the article is to remove malicious Safari extensions.

Avast Remove Advanced Mac Cleaner Scam