Q: Trovi Virus Removal Needed

I'm not sure Trojan/Virus is the right word to use.

I think you've just gotten an unwanted search provider.

That ad needs some refinement also...

How to fix:

Chrome Settings > Extensions > Remove Trovi

Also

In Settings > Scroll down to search > Manage search engines > Remove everything but your preferred search engine.

Trovi is a new one for me, but often these sorts of things are driven by existing adware or network issues. See my Adware Removal Guide and see if anything there solves it. If not, post back here for further suggestions.

Thats didnt work for me.

Please HELP

Daniel, please create a new discussion (and reference this one)

In your new thread,

Describe your system version

What browsers are used (do you see Trovi on all of them or not?)

Have you reset them to default?

Have you seen Thomas_r's adware removal guide? (and followed it?)

Please use the information in this discussion so that we can help you.

see

http://blog.qisupport.com/remove-trovi-com-iesafarichromefirefoxopera-manual-rem oval/

yes, already tried that

look at this, now trovi is out but got now a bunch of adds that are driving me crazy

What browser are you using ?

Is it in all ?

Have you reset them ?

I normally use CHROME, but if I opne SAFARI, its also in there.

I try and reset it and nothing.

Well as its in Safari and you have tried all the options already given

Back up all you folders/files etc and clean install your system.  You can not remove safari without a clean install.

Delete all your other browsers except Safari from your applications folders

and try this again

http://blog.qisupport.com/remove-trovi-com-iesafarichromefirefoxopera-manual-rem oval/

You do not give any info as to which operating system you are using or what year mac etc

so search these forums on how to do a clean install depending on your equipment

How do you remove this from safari?

1. Delete all cookies. Remove conduit search engine. Set your page a blank. Reset all browsers. Don't restart the browsers.

2. Go to library/system/ and library/system/Internet Plug-Ins/. Find all related to 'conduit' and 'vsearch'. Delete them.

3. Go to llibrary/system/ and library/system/Internet Plug-Ins/. Find all related to 'conduit' and 'vsearch'. Delete them.

4. Reboot.

I hope it'll work for you!

I'm a culprit as well. Found & tried this: http://info.trovi.com/Uninstall

Seems to work. Good luck!

This is a malware that installs 2 different pieces of adware.. the 1st is the conduit plugin and the 2nd is the vsearchA adware.

I wrote an applescript to remove this if you want to use it.   Just open up the AppleScript Editor which is located in your Applications/Utilities folder.  Copy the script below and paste it into the AppleScript Editor and then press Run.

set Question to display dialog ¬

          "Please quit all browsers before running this script" buttons {"Cancel", "Run"} default button 1

if button returned of Question is "Run" then

          try

                    do shell script "rm -r /System/Library/Frameworks/VSearch.Framework; rm -r /Library/Application Support/VSearch; rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.plist; rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist; rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.helper.plist; rm -r ~/Conduit" with administrator privileges

                    do shell script "defaults write com.apple.Safari HomePage -string www.google.com && defaults write com.apple.Safari SearchProviderIdentifier -string com.google.www"

                    do shell script "rm ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Preferences"

          on error the error_message number the error_number

          end try

end if