What is Advanced Mac Cleaner?
Advanced Mac Cleaner is a Potentially Unwanted program. At first glance, Advanced Mac Cleaner may seem useful because it promises to clean up your Mac from malicious files, fix errors and remove unnecessary from your computer. Also, it displays a pop-up containing information about the pro version or warning that you need to get rid of the threats on your computer. Thus, Advanced Mac Cleaner is trying to force users to spend money. This program promises to help the user to save money, but in fact, most of the offers are not real. Also, Advanced Mac Cleaner reduces your computer’s performance, and so on. Advanced Mac Cleaner may collect personal information and transmits it to third parties. If this PUP is already installed on your MAC, we recommend your Mac, remove Advanced Mac Cleaner(Mac) immediately.
How Advanced Mac Cleaner gets on your PC?
Advanced Mac Cleaner gets into Mac without the user’s knowledge. It can get on your computer insensibly in the form of additional content or come bundled with free software. Also, this program can be installed from its website or partner sites. Often users download freeware via Installation Manager, which hides within itself potentially unwanted programs (download.com, ebay.com etc.). Installation of programs, in these cases, happens quickly and installation progress is not displayed. Thus, the user does not expect that computer is at risk. The user should read attentively the user agreement and not hurry to press “Next” button. Try to choose the “Advanced” type of installation. If Advanced Mac Cleaner is already infiltrated on your PC, then you need to get rid of it now!
How to remove Advanced Mac Cleaner from your Mac or PC?
To uninstall Advanced Mac Cleaner remove it from Applications, then delete all leftover files and folders.
In our view, there are 2 products that potentially have Advanced Mac Cleaner in their database. You can try to use them for removing Advanced Mac Cleaner.
Recommended Solution:
Bitdefender Antivirus- fully removes all instances of viruses, similar to Advanced Mac Cleaner from Mac and Safari.
Alternative Solution:
MacClean for Mac – finds Advanced Mac Cleaner and can clean up leftover items after removal.
Or uninstall Advanced Mac Cleaner manually.
Step 1: Remove Advanced Mac Cleaner from Mac
Advanced Mac Cleaner may not have app associated with it in Application. However, we recommend you to inspect the list of installed applications and remove unknown or suspicious ones.
Mac OSX:
- Open Finder
- In the Finder sidebar, click Applications
- If you see Uninstall Advanced Mac Cleaner or Advanced Mac Cleaner Uninstaller, double-click it and follow instructions
- Drag unwanted application 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.
After that remove Advanced Mac Cleaner from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Advanced Mac Cleaner from browsers
Safari:
- Open Safari
- Click Safari menu.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Advanced Mac Cleaner.
- Click Uninstall button to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Safari.
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Advanced Mac Cleaner.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Advanced Mac Cleaner.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Advanced Mac Cleaner:
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Written by Rami Douafi