How to remove ForwardOpen (Mac)

What is ForwardOpen?

ForwardOpen is a potentially unwanted program that infects Mac devices. Once it gets on your system, it causes pop-up stating that Apple wants to make changes and requests your password. If you click “Cancel” button, you will see a new pop-up: “installation complete” with the only choice is to click “OK”.

ForwardOpen tracks users’ browsing activity and uses this information to display customized ads on webpages users visit or sell it to third parties. As a result, countless annoying pop-up ads that will appear from time to time while browsing the Internet. In addition to this, it can change homepage, new tab page or default search engine of a browser and take measures to prevent users from changing those settings back. Therefore, if you find ForwardOpen installed on your Mac, you need to remove it immediately.

How ForwardOpen gets on your Mac?

Usually, ForwardOpen appears on users’ Macbooks after users get redirected to rogue sites claiming that an Adobe Flash Player update needs to be installed, and end up installing it. As a result, several pieces of adware, malware and potentially unwanted software, including Document Converter, get installed on their Macs. Other ways for ForwardOpen and other browser hijackers to end up on users’ machines are users installing free software and not opting out of extra programs that are also offered for installation, or users opening files downloaded from shady websites. If that had happened and ForwardOpen took over your browser, you may follow our tutorial to remove ForwardOpen from your Mac.

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Also, you can try to remove ForwardOpen manually.

Alternative solution. Step 1: Remove ForwardOpen from Mac

ForwardOpen may not have the app associated with it in Applications. However, we recommend you to inspect the list of installed applications and remove unknown or suspicious ones. Look for ForwardOpen or ForwardOpen.app.

Mac OSX:

Open Finder
In the Finder sidebar, click Applications
If you see Uninstall ForwardOpen or ForwardOpen Uninstaller, double-click it and follow instructions
Drag unwanted application ForwardOpen from the Applications folder to the Trash (located on the right side of the Dock)

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Mac OSX