Hey folks...I did something dumb. I let a fake review site convince me to download and install Total AV. Turns out it's more a virus than anti-virus. Tried to delete it, but a pop-up window tells me it can't be trashed because it's running. Went to bunch of sites to find out how to get rid of it, but they were almost all dummy sites from Total AV. Anyone know how to uninstall Total AV?
Thanks a million.
iMac, iOS 10
You can see if Malwarebytes for Mac will remove it. Malwarebytes for Mac — Mac Antivirus Replacement | Malwarebytes
If not, AppCleaner will. https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
You just drag the Total AV icon on top of AppCleaner and it will find the associated files. Move them to the Trash. Restart then empty the Trash.
You can see if Malwarebytes for Mac will remove it. Malwarebytes for Mac — Mac Antivirus Replacement | Malwarebytes
If not, AppCleaner will. https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
You just drag the Total AV icon on top of AppCleaner and it will find the associated files. Move them to the Trash. Restart then empty the Trash.
Contact the developers and ask them for uninstall instructions. If they cannot provide it then try dragging the app to the Trash and emptying the Trash. Otherwise you will have to do an erase and re-install Mac OS and start over again.
Thanks for the quick response. No point in trying to contact them for uninstall. They have a plethora of sites with different names that give uninstall instructions that ask for money for uninstall software. They'll just give me a link to one of those sites or sell me uninstall software that I won't be able to uninstall. It dragging it does nothing. I'm guessing that Apple, I would hope, has a solution to this.
Thanks again.
Biff
remove total av from my imac
