How to Remove Advanced Mac Cleaner Virus

Hey Jraby,

I know I'm only level one, but please scroll up and read what others are doing that worked. I searched through my folders and files for hours. The only thing that worked for me was Going to the AMC website and downloading the uninstall. Try whatever else you are comfortable with, but this is the only thing that worked for me.

I noticed it today I removed it straight away. Then I scanned my iMac for Viruses, 7 came up with Advance Mac cleaner.

I did the same. Went to Advanced Mac Cleaner website. There is a uninstall program, downloaded it, ran it.

It WORKED! It has been about a month now and no popups or locked screens.

It may be that it wasn't really installed? I get the popups but never installed it. It shows up everyday. I run Malwarebytes, which is free, and every time I run it, it finds the Mac Cleaner. We need really, really good advice. It needs to come from a higher power than Mac Cleaner. It needs to work.

Thanks to you and Seventy one for level headed advice.

Even after a few hours trying to wipe out Advanced Mac Cleaner using step by step instructions found in this thread and others, I too was reluctant to attempt to delete a malicious free download with another free download. But you guys gave me confidence in downloading and trying Malwarebytes, which seems to have worked perfectly.

Thanks again.

now, 2018, this is apparently Malwarebytes. i let it get installed on my mac, and it immediately found the 'advanced mac cleaner" and quarentined it and asked for a restart. did so, and was reminded that the downloaded program is a trial for 30 days. I clicked the 'scan' button on the program and it found the other two malware that had been loaded along with advance mac cleaner: booking, and advance search (or something like that). It displayed those finds and i clicked on the 'confirm' button. it then apparently deleted those two from my mac, as opposed to guaranteening them. I just went into my mach apps screen, and indeed the two icons that i couldn't trash, Booking, and Advanced Mac Cleaner, are now gone (the icons). Now, on the same apps screen is the Malwarebytes app icon. went to the Mac Apps store and entered a search for Malwarebytes.....NOTHING! So, now, while I'm happy that the Malwarebytes program captured the three malware i inherited (by clicking on the safari/google or whatever screen that listed a need to upgrade adobe flash (or whatever) and I now wonder: did the malware load more or less provide a solution path to Malwarebytes? maybe paranoia, but can that be? malware facilitates sales? again, why isn't/wasn't Malwarebytes in the Mac app store? Did i just step into a pile of poopies, or was this a simple good fix with Malwarebytes? Thoughts????? help......

Bigh1212 wrote:

The only thing that worked for me was Going to the AMC website and downloading the uninstall.

When trying to get rid of a piece of software from an untrustworthy developer that used sneaky methods to get their software onto your hard drive, I wouldn't recommend downloading another program from that same developer and running it to remove the software. There have been many cases where such "uninstallers" have not fully removed the software, or have even installed new things after having made it look like they uninstalled it.

Download and apply this program from a much respected contriburtor here. Then come back and tell us what you found.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/

It is a scam, your chances of a refund are very small.

Csound1 wrote:

Its not safe, don't go there.

The site posted in Erigo Asparago's message that jrabey was replying to is safe.

Try Bitdefender. It worked on my MacBook Pro.

How To Remove Advanced Mac Cleaner - YouTube this is the ONLY thing you need to do

Thanks Erigo and Malwarebytes. Worked really well. Highly recommended for deletion of Advanced Mac Cleaner Virus

Remove it as soon as you can. Do not respond to the site in any way.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2435 Here is some excellent advice from a senior member that gives a link to removing Mackeeper.

Ahh, that's a good question... if he scanned WITH Advanced Mac Cleaner, I wouldn't trust those results. 🙂