How to uninstall genieo fro iMac?

What version of OS X are you running and are you comfortable using the Terminal app?

Hi MadMacs0,

It runs os x 10.9.1. Sorry, I don't know what the terminal app is. My MacBook Pro is stuck on the start-up blue screen, so I couldn't access an app or anything else on it anyway. Is there another way to get in and fix it?

Thank you.

Melissa

greytdogs wrote:

It runs os x 10.9.1. Sorry, I don't know what the terminal app is. My MacBook Pro is stuck on the start-up blue screen, so I couldn't access an app or anything else on it anyway.

Yes you can access it from the Recovery Partition, but you would need to launch the Terminal app there and enter a few commands in order to find and remove the file you missed.

Thanks MadMacs0. I can't get it to go thru startup or open in safe mode, so it probs will need professional help. Thank you for taking the time to respond

greytdogs wrote:

I can't get it to go thru startup or open in safe mode, so it probs will need professional help.

You should be starting up with the Command+R keys held down as the instructions I gave you say, not into safe mode.

At this point, I would agree with "professional help".

Thanks harrymcmahon230200 - worked!

After following your solution, I then deleted a Genieo folder in my Library:

Library > Application Support > Genieo > Data folder

I then re-stared my machine again. May have been over-kill.

I should have been smarter than installing a piece of sh*t like Genieo that controls my computer...

Thanks harrymcmahon230200 - worked!

Actually, his stated solution does not work. It leaves behind potentially quite a lot of stuff. For proper removal, see:

http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-genieo/

I ran the genieo uninstaller and lost all visible signs of the program and some of the other files did not exist. I believe that the .dylib file (/usr/lib/libgenkit.dylib) still exist on my computer. Whenever I try to access it Finder tells me I do not have permission to access it. I AM logged in as the administrator. Has anyone seen this and have a fix for it?

Seems the instructions, updated recently, are

in the link immediately above your question:

adware removal guide - genieo

http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-genieo/

That is a path most likely to succeed,

if you have good attention to detail.

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

TAPII wrote:

I believe that the .dylib file (/usr/lib/libgenkit.dylib) still exist on my computer. Whenever I try to access it Finder tells me I do not have permission to access it.

Are you sure you are following TheSafeMac instructions mentioned several times above? There may be three .dylib files in that same directory (folder) so why do you think only the libgenkit.dylib is still there?

Did you select "Go To Folder..." from the Finder's Go menu and type or paste "/usr/lib/" without the quotes and it told you you don't have permission?

A side question on this topic...

In an older G4 Mini running 10.5.8, in the /usr/lib/ folder, I see several items ending in .dylib; some from 2007, some from 2010; none appear to be from genieo or these later evolved items discussed here.

If I decide to delete them out of paranoia, I suspect the computer would freeze. Since this computer is nearly an antique and only gets slow with more than two browser windows open, and no redirects in search engines, would there be any reason to change or remove anything? The slowness can be attributed to a low total RAM upgrade of 1024MB in the single slot.

This is almost a rhetorical question.

But I could go about removing the items

as a distraction from shoveling snow.

Nothing worth doing is fun. Seriously 🙂

It might not freeze, but in all probability it would disable many things since dynamic libraries perform many varied functions and in that location it would be in conjunction with the Unix sub-system.

I know of nothing that could be removed to speed up your Mini, but I have been able to improve my browsing experience on an iMac G5 running 10.5.8.

leopard-webkit supplies an updated, more efficient version of the engine that drives Safari, Mail and probably a couple of other Apple apps. I recommend you use the Stable version from the Download tab.

If you feel left out of the Firefox experience, try TenFourFox which I have found to be useful.

Haven't used Safari except out of curiosity (like Camino, etc) but have not tossed Safari out because I can reassign browsers as system default from there. Have the TenFourFox latest version, plus a SeaMonkey-PPC, iCab, and another holdover, Opera from another recently expired era. With three Macs running 10.5.8, only one is intel-based; didn't really want to purchase 10.6 DVD with pending repairs to the old MacBook. So far other than a RAM upgrade and a few hours troubleshooting two of these three were free. There was no update to FireFox (from built-in update) for MacBook intel version, that saw later support than PPC version.

But the quantity of .dylib files in that users library sorta took me by surprise.

S'pose some have to live there after all, unless they turn out to be squatters.

Just got back in from shoveling ufn. +10°F now. Can't say as it was worth it.

Thanks for the reply.

Spring is just around the corner,

and around the next corner, and

then up a hill, & around the next...

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

K Shaffer wrote:

But the quantity of .dylib files in that users library sorta took me by surprise.

S'pose some have to live there after all, unless they turn out to be squatters.

Although the /usr/ directory was the original "Users" folder, it's meaning is now somewhat different. Wikopedia has this to say about it, in part:

Originally the directory holding user home directories,[10] its use has changed. It now holds executables, libraries, and shared resources that are not system critical, like the X Window System, KDE, Perl, etc.

10. Ritchie, Dennis. "Unix Notes from 1972" . Retrieved 4 October 2012.

I just did a count and there are 313 files in /usr/lib/ with "dylib" in the name.

Thanks!! Absolute life saver! This is the only way - look no further!