How to Remove Advanced Mac Cleaner Virus

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.

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.

Its not safe, don't go there.

tomfv wrote:

Try Bitdefender. It worked on my MacBook Pro.

More junk.

Do you intend to reinstall them? if not, delete them.

I found out how to remove Advance Mac Cleaner here: what is advanced mac cleaner

Go to the folder with your username. Inside you should see the folder 'Library'. If you do not, go up to 'View' and select "Show View Options." Check "Show Library Folder." You should now see Library. Now just follow the instructions in the link above.

thomas_r. wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

Its not safe, don't go there.

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

Pedantry is a bore, in general if the site is not safe or you think it is not safe, do not go there. Is that OK for you now

Thanks so much. I had to go into each folder and send each of these files to the Trash individually. Once that was done, I restarted my MacBook and now its GONE!!! Yay! Thanks for the Post! You saved me and Probably lots of others!

I would really scroll to the top and use my solution. But to answer your question, if you go on to finder, at the bottom you'll see a section that says devices. If you hit the icon that says the name of your hard drive (mine is macintosh hd) you will see applications, library, systems, and users. hit users and you will see your user name. there you go, hope it helped.

this is exactly what i did. it apparently (in addition to what else it may have installed) installed two safari "extensions": advanced mac cleaner, and Booking.com. Neither will go to the trash, and as for the advanced mac cleaner, it periodically prompts me with so many hundred issues found, sign up, etc., including a female voice announcement re same. I called the 1-801 number for "support", comes up on my phone as in Midval, UT. The female, apparently in some sort of call center, answers "Premium Support" or "Premium Tech Support" or something like that. After I advised her i have the advance mac cleaner on my mac, she immediate offered to have a "technician" log on to my computer and fix that. When I asked to speak with her supervisor, she disconnected and was gone. so, how to fix this? help?

in an earlier post/reply (3march2018) I indicated that with Malwarebytes, on a scan it found two items and there was a 'confirm' button, which i clicked on. thought that it had actually totally removed them, but as i now look back, all three items (AMC, Booking, Unltrasearch) are in the Malwarebytes QUARANTEEN folder. Now, should I "CLEAR" these items?