coordinatorplus app

Yes, it's adware. You can use the delete button from within Etrecheck or download download and run Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes was developed by one of our own colleagues here in ASC and is about the most proven anti-malware software for Mac.

I had the same problem. I usually run Webroot SecureAnywhere, and it would find some files, but it would come back. I then downloaded Avast which found more but it also came back. Now it's gone after running Webroot, Avast and Malwarebytes which was recommended here. I've restarted my mac and Safari has not been hijacked so far. Hope this helps.

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Download and run Malwarebytes. It was developed by a long time contributor to these forums and a highly respected member of the computer security community.

I had just finished a clean install from an old backup. My Suitcase Fusion wasn't working, so I uninstalled and reinstalled from the . The icon for Coordinator Plus appeared RIGHT after that. I opened Safari and found it in my plug ins and deleted it. I also found it in my apps folder and deleted it there. Currently running Norton Security.

I had an issue with outgoing email from Mail/icloud account at the same time that I encountered CoordinatorPlus. After deleting the files that MalwareBytes found and deleting the CoordinatorPlus app and extension, I solicited help from my ISP (Charter) who directed me to Apple. After 45 minutes with Apple Support trying lots of things, it was discovered that there was something wrong with my Google mail account. I was instructed to delete the Google Mail account and then add it back.

Now my outgoing iCloud Mail is working again. I suspect that the adware corrupted the Google Mail account.

Ok, looks like macjack got back to you before I could. I would +1 his suggestion about using Malwarebytes for Mac.

Good. Now uninstall Webroot and Avast as per the developer's instructions. It is unwise to have more than one Anti-Vrus or anti-malware app running. Since Malwarebytes is the only one recommended by Apple Support folks themselves, I'd stick with that.

I ran MalwareBytes which found some threats. I removed them as the program recommended. The threats did not include anything with coordinatorplus in the names and coordinatorplus is still in my applications

You should remove Webroot and Avast as they are not needed and tend to do more harm to a Mac's performance that good. Malwarebytes running in the manual mode is all you need.

It appears to be adware. Follow the instructions given by macjack.

After running Malwarebytes are you still experiencing the same problem?

yes. search engine was defaulting to yahoo.

I trashed the coordinatorplus app and emptied trash.

search engine is now using google as usual.

My wife is having the same problem on her computer. I tried to search for the coordinatorplus on her safari but came up with nothing, so I searched on my uninfected computer and found this thread.

Like you, I tried deleting it but it showed back up again.