how do i uninstall safe finder

safe finder is consider adware, malware

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if safe find is in safari

click on safari beside black apple > preferences> general > change home page > hit return save changes if it comes up

if chrome has it same thing

chrome top menu bar > preferences> show home button change home page there

make sure you go down to manage search engines get rid of any un known aka safe find make sure Google is default

joseek wrote:

when i try to delete the homepage link it returns it.

Adware installers often make changes to your Safari home page that persist after the adware is gone.

Apple has recently changed where that home page setting is stored. It is no longer stored in the Safari preferences file, it is kept in an inaccessible part of the keychain. (This is meant to make it harder for adware to change the setting, but it still manages to do so.)

Unfortunately, in some cases, this causes the home page setting to become stuck for some reason. I have not identified exactly why this happens, nor have I identified a reliable solution. Some users report that the following procedure fixes the problem:

First, restart in safe mode:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455

Be sure to read the information in the section titled "How to tell if your Mac is started in safe mode" on that page, and follow those steps to ensure that you're actually in safe mode. If you aren't, try again.

Once you're in safe mode, hold down the shift key while opening Safari. When Safari opens, try changing the home page.

If the home page setting still won't change, contact Apple support:

https://support.apple.com

EDIT: I may have mixed up Simple Finder & safe Finder. Simple Finder is the built in feature described below…

You don't uninstall it you disable it for the user account.

If you are not an admin user you need to login as admin, in System Preferences > Parental controls select the user account & edit the user account that has Simple Finder enabled.

Ask a parent, teacher or an admin if you do not own & control the Mac, only admins can edit the setting.

Note that, as others have already said, Malwarebytes will remove the adware that causes this. However, Malwarebytes does not fix your browser's settings afterward, and this adware is known to change those settings. Be sure to manually fix your home page and search engine settings after removing adware with Malwarebytes. (There will be some links that Malwarebytes will show you after removal that will help you with that, if you're not sure how to do it.)

this is more diabolical. I suspect it may have been "improved" since since original advice and Malwarebytes initial discovery.

I'm sure I'll get it eventually, but Malwarebytes was run (and it found and removed) extensions are completely disabled, home and search are as they should be, safari has been reset, a hidden extension has been removed from /tmp, chrome and firefox have been worked on, and something is still opening safari and pointing to safe finder every few minutes. Never seen anything like it.

When did you run Malwarebytes? There was a rule update a few days ago to pick up a new variant of SafeFinder. If it's been a few days, try scanning again. If that still doesn't solve the problem, let me know.

It was 2-3 days ago, but that knowledge it golden! I'll try to update and scan again. I also have four webpages of manual removal/reset instructions handy for my next try in a few minutes lol. Thanks.

I am struggling to understand what you are talking about.

Do you know?

Peter

im not sure if hes talking about os feature or if hes talking about adware called safe finder

+1 Safe Finder is malware.

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Thank you, Sir Thomas!

There was indeed a new Malwarebytes update to install, and I hesitantly declare that SafeFinder is no longer opening Safari.

I'm glad to hear that!

now I have the same problem. and Malwarebytes is up to date, still safe finder shows up both in safari and chrome. what's more, when i try to delete the homepage link it returns it.