I installed 2 VPNs on my Mac: Free Vpn and Planet VPN. And after I deleted them all the browsers stopped working. The Telegram functions but the rest — like iCloud notes or browsers — don’t. I restarted the Mac, restarted the browsers, didn’t help. The internet at home in general works (no problems on iPhone). How can I get my working browsers back?
MacBook Air 11″, OS X 10.11
Unless you're using a true VPN tunnel, such as between you and your employer's, school's or bank's servers, they provide false security from a privacy standpoint. Read these two articles: Public VPN's are anything but private and Former Malware Distributor Kape Technologies Now Owns a Number of Public VPNs and a Collection of VPN “Review” Websites.
You can check to see if you've removed all of the supporting files by downloading and running the shareware app Find Any File to search for any files with the application's or the developer's name in the file name. For the V{M software you'd do the following search(es):
1 - Name contains vpn
Any files that are found can be dragged from the search results window to the Desktop or Trash bin in the Dock for deletion.
FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't like invisible folders, system folders and packages.
If you get warnings that the file can't be deleted because it is in use or used by another app boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and delete from there.
Note: if you have a wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries connect it with its charging cable before booting into Safe Mode. This makes it act as a wired keyboard as will assure a successful boot into Safe Mode.
Also you shouldn't install and run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up" or anti-virus apps on your Mac? If you have uninstall then according to the developer's instructions and use Find Any File to see if you got all of the supporting documents.
If you didn't follow the developer's instructions on uninstalling their product, you need to do so.
VPNs by their very nature get all tangle up in your system and simply dragging the app to the trash may have been insufficient.
Yes. Its actually working again after I deleted many large and potentially interfering programs. I started with the VPNs of course and had to delete Creative Cloud, particularly the syncing program. I had gone through the connection settings many times prior to this as well to ensure all was ok and of course a bunch of restarts of the computer and router.
Hope it works for you. Best of luck!
Were you able to sort this out?
I’m having the same issue except that it started right after I downloaded PlanetVPN, not after deleting.
Hi
did you solve this? The same thing happened to me after downloading and deleting planet vpn
Browsers stopped working after VPN using and deleting
