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How do I get rid of adware?

I keep getting 3 ads on the sides of my screen and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of this!! Thank you in advance!!

The Safe Mac » Adware Removal Guide

The Safe Mac » Adware Removal Guide

THANK YOU!!!!

How I got completely rid of adware on my Mac Safari browser:

After I clicked by mistake on installation of a software, that I had downloaded for a friend, my Mac got infested with Adware. They gave me scare messages like your mac is infected, call xyz number, or buy abc software etc.

Thankfully I knew not to act on those sharewares. They further started redirecting me to websites I never intended to visit.

It was extremely annoying. I tried looking for various solutions on internet, and removed applications like flash player from my applications folder. However nothing helped me to completely remove the adware. For a non techie person like me, this can be quite frustrating.

Finally, I landed on a  site that asked me to remove certain plists from launch agent and launch deamon. Plist or property list is basically an application that executes the attached file in background, without user coming to know about it. Many a times these lists are legitimate as well.

How to reach launch agent:

Right Click the Finder Window > Click on Go to Folder > Paste -

/Library/LaunchAgents

/Library/LaunchDaemons

The files here seemed quite legit, with names like apple, google, microsoft update etc. Sample names below:

com.apple.roinnris.plist

com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist

com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist

At first glance I thought that they must be legitimate. Then I clicked on them to check the source file. And then I found all the culprits.

From the plist I took the link for source code, and found that all those files were stored in library folder. I went to the library folder by the following method:

Right Click on Finder > Click on Go to Folder > Paste  /Users/USERNAME/Library/

At the bottom of the folder, a lot of folders and files were created and all of them were created on or 3-4 days after 11th Aug 17 (the date on which I had installed the godforsaken software).

In Library, legitimate apple folders were arranged by name and ended at Workflows (Or so I have guessed). I found that all folders after that were adware folders. Here are the name of those files and folders in case you find them useful.

ApplicationSupport

appn

backup.zip

biter

roinnris

impoliteness.sb

instance

jjkl

MacInstallEe

MacInstallPall

MacUpdDate

mi_bespill

settings.dat

ttCIOmts

ughkxwoiosde

Updates

watch.log

As soon as I removed the above mentioned files found in Library, both the following folders which had at least 7-10 plists in it, automatically cleaned up.

It has been 15 hours since the clean up and I am completely free of adware…yippee!

I hope the above process will help you also clean up the adware.

Best Wishes

Sapana

www.inhika.com

最後更新：2017-08-31 13:18:22

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