How to remove S3.amazonaws.com from Mac

What is S3.amazonaws.com?

S3.amazonaws.com is an ad-supported domain that may start to appear in your browser from time to time. Unfortunately, this activity indicates that your system is infected with adware. As a rule, S3.amazonaws.com gets 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. Other ways for adware 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.

This is a description of the problem of one of the users:

The issue starts to appear on some websites, where when the site starts to load, the original ads are loaded and then almost immediately they are covered up by other ads. After some time audio starts playing and pop-ups appear with messages like “congratulations, we want to make you a millionaire” or something similar. Additionally, when on the main page I am scrolling and there is a .gif post it automatically redirects me to the post page.

Having S3.amazonaws.com adware installed on your device is not dangerous but it significantly reduces browsing and system performance as a whole. Hence, we advise you to remove S3.amazonaws.com as soon as you can. To do so, follow our step-by-step guide.

How to remove S3.amazonaws.com from your Mac?

The easiest and most modern way of removing pop-ups, hijackers, trojans or other types of threats is to use automatic removal tools. See our Anti-malware tools below for further instructions.

Recommended Anti-malware tools:

For Mac:

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MacOS versions

Or uninstall S3.amazonaws.com manually.

Step 1: RemoveS3.amazonaws.com from Mac

S3.amazonaws.com 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 apps with magnifier icon such as PhaseSearch, ForwardOpen, etc.

Mac OSX:

Open Finder
In the Finder sidebar, click Applications
If you see Uninstall S3.amazonaws.com or S3.amazonaws.com Uninstaller, double-click it and follow instructions
Drag unwanted application S3.amazonaws.com from the Applications folder to the Trash (located on the right side of the Dock)

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Mac OSX

To remove leftover items of unwanted application on Mac we recommend you to use AppCleaner. Just drag application you want to remove to AppCleaner window and it will search for residual data on your hard drive. This will save space of your memory and will help to remove stubborn applications from Mac systems.