how do I delete the freshy search engine from my macbook?

I inadvertently installed Freshy as a search engine via Firefox and want to uninstall. How do I do this?

MacBook Pro 17″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Oct 23, 2021 7:07 PM

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Oct 24, 2021 6:10 AM in response to CathH13

CathH13 wrote:

I inadvertently installed Freshy as a search engine via Firefox and want to uninstall. How do I do this?


I suspect you have installed adware/malware:


>System Preferences>Profiles click into it and then remove all the suspicious things from the list. (This Preference pane will not be present if no profiles found.)


also Verify you are not using SOCKS proxy:

>System Preferences>Networks>Advanced>Proxy uncheck the box


Adware/malware launch daemons can set SOCKS proxies without user participation.

(SOCKS is an Internet protocol that exchanges network packets between a client and server through a proxy server.)


Adware Removal Guide—Manual removal of : http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-identification/

or

Try running this trusted utility https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/


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