Malware including Trojan & Keylogger removal from Macbook Pro 2021

The amount of " Stuff " that was installed to remedy this computer issue may have just made a bad situation even worse.

One can attempt to find / clean up all this " Stuff " and not get all the bits and pieces left behind.

Or a more Radical approach and Wipe the Drive and reinstall Monterey Fresh. Refer to below image " Erase All Contents and Setting . . . "

If doing that - suggest Not using Migration Assist at first boot up. That would re-Introduce the existing issue that existed when the TM Backup was made.

Just Migrate the User Account and nothing more

Any Third Party Applications that will interfere with the normal operation of the OS, alter, modify, remove or delete or attempt to do so is an invitation for disaster . It may require a Reinstallation of the OS in-order to replace any modified, altered, removed or corrupted elements of the OS this software has inflected on this computer 

Although some or all of these Applications maybe available on the Apple Apps Store, it does not mean Apple has verified what exactly the Application can do, does do or is doing to the Computer. That responsibility is left to the User to perform their due diligence on the Application before purchasing and installing it.

Any of the below should be removed as per Developers Instructions 

This includes AntiVirus, Disk Cleaners, Disk Optimizes, UnInstaller etc.

This will include CleanMyMac , This will include BitDefender , 

This will included Norton Antivirus , Sophos Av Software

Intego AntiVirus, McAfee, MacKeeper, Avast AntiVirus

Ad Guard, Webroot

The The Built in Security  is all that is required.

You don't have any malicious software installed on your computer. It is possible there could be some leftover files, but they are harmless. Some scam apps will claim that those leftover files are evidence of a continuing infection.

You still have a few parts of various antivirus apps installed. Any partially installed apps will do more harm than good.

The technical restrictions that Apple imposes on all Mac App Store apps make antivirus apps impossible on the Mac App Store.

etresoft wrote:

The technical restrictions that Apple imposes on all Mac App Store apps makes antivirus apps impossible on the Mac App Store.

Not sure what this means? There's at least a dozen useless, so called anti-virus/malware apps on the App Store?

dialabrain wrote:

Not sure what this means? There's at least a dozen useless, so called anti-virus/malware apps on the App Store?

Sorry for the confusion. I was able to make a correction to this statement in the edit window.

Are you saying that "mcafee" is synonymous with antivirus? Hmmm....Not sure I would go along with that.

But regardless, Apple does not allow Mac App Store apps to:

1) Scan the hard drive

2) Elevate user privileges

For this category of software, Mac App Store apps can be useful as advertisements to get the user to purchase the "full" product outside of the Mac App Store.

P. Phillips wrote:

In the Full Context " Although some or all of these Applications maybe available on the Apple Apps Store," does not say it is definitively there :-)

But Avast AV is ;-)

That is just a search field. It is using a proprietary Apple algorithm to return results that the user might find useful. It is not an exact match.

Neither McAfee nor Avast is in the Mac App Store. These results should be interpreted as, "I see you are searching for antivirus apps like McAfee or Avast. Here are some apps you might like instead..."

In the Full Context " Although some or all of these Applications maybe available on the Apple Apps Store," does not say it is definitively there :-)

But Avast AV is ;-)

etresoft wrote:

Sorry for the confusion.

No need.

We can agree to disagree :-)

The main point of the OP is really the true and sole issue at hand " Malware including Trojan & Keylogger removal from Macbook Pro 2021"