Suspicious application called "BeAware."

This program was somehow put on my Macbook air on 12/14/18. I saw it in launchpad and it looked suspicious. When I click on it my screen flashes but nothing opens and I can't drag it into the trash. What's concerning is that when I searched for it online it seems to be a surveillance software. (You can't find it anywhere with the 'bee' logo and you have to make sure you search for it as one word, not 'be aware'.) I am trying to drag it from Applications into my trash but getting a message saying something like "BeAware cannot be deleted because it's in use." Does this mean a surveillance program has been watching my computer activity since 12/14???

Help!

UPDATE:

I went to Activity Monitor (open up Finder, go to the Applications folder, then the Utilities folder, and the shortcut to open Activity Monitor is right there).

I quit the program.

I went back to search for it in Finder and was finally able to drag it to the trash.

I deleted the trash.

I no longer see it in Launchpad. Hopefully the above info helps the next person on this thread. And hopefully it's gone forever.

If you have any reason to believe I need to do more steps, pls post to let me know. Thx!

Se trata de um Malware! Para remove-lo não instale nada!

Basta ir no seu monitor de atividades / Encontre o BeAware / Encerre / Vá no Finder na Barra superior e procure ( Ir ) e ( Pasta Original ) / Aplicativos / Remova para lixeira / Esvazie a Lixeira.

E pronto.

I just managed to uninstall it.

it has starts up upon login so you need to: Go to system preferences, Select Users and Groups. click on your profile, choose login items and deselect Beaware.

Next, go to activity manager, find it there, and force quit (I had to open it for it to show up at the top of activity manager cause it hides in there, then force quit to be sure) after this you can drag it from utilities to trash.

hope this helps.

How I came across this on my daughters Mac pro was by accident. I had gone into system preferences, and clicked on group/users and there it was in logins, ticked off to start at login. So I deleted it from there. Then I did the activity monitor check an found it and was able to drag to trash.

Go in Users & Groups

Untick the BeAware application from User Login Items

Run Activity Monitor and quit the app

Download AppCleaner for Mac

Lookup the BeAware application and delete it.

Had the same issue and looked throughout countless forums that offered similar suggestions from downloading Malwarebytes to accessing the LaunchAgents/Launch Daemons folders to delete recently added folders that could be linked to BeAware. None of these methods worked and surprisingly, the easiest method was typing in BeAware in Spotlight and showing "all" files linked to this naming convention. Once the list was provided, I was able to drag and drop the app directly into the trash with no issues.

See if you can find the file(s) using one of these programs. If you go Finder/View/Show Path Bar, it will show you where it is located.

EasyFind – Spotlight Replacement

Find Any File

To find virus software, hold down the Command key, which is just to the left of the space bar and and hit the "F" key. Put in the word beware and it should find it for you. I am using OS X 10.13 and using AppCleaner. I had to find it myself using the keystrokes above. Be sure to click on the desktop in order so that the search is done on all the file on your computer. At least that is how I did it. Blessings. Eric

Naomi,

I had the same thing. But my Mac is newer. The only thing to do is try and get an older version of AppCleaner and it will find where it is when you put in the name "BeAware" and remove it for you. Hope it works. These people are either just act mean or they are profiting from it some way, which still makes them as acting mean.

If the "Beaware" app won't delete because its still running in the background and you don't want to have input payment info, I suggest this link: https://www.imore.com/cant-delete-app-your-mac-because-its-still-open-heres-fix

It gives instructions on how to close an app running in the background but not showing as already open. After I followed the instructions on closing the app I was able to delete it!

I'm sure you've probably solved this by now but for anyone else coming here to look for an answer - I had the exact same problem recently.

The best way to get rid of it is to force quit it through activity monitor, then search the name in spotlight and drag it to the trash.

I actually resulted in buying Mac Remover for approximately $30 to uninstall 136 files (per the Mac Remover software) associated with this app just to be super safe. Initially, I tried to delete it by placing it in the trash, but it was no where to be found in the Finder. Its suspicious to me because I have a suspecting partner.

No, not Apple:

http://www.ascentive.com/products/beaware/

It may have been bundled along with another third party application or malware.

Download and run Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes was developed by one of our own colleagues here in ASC and is about the most proven anti-malware software for Mac.

If Malwarebytes doesn't remove then run Etrecheck It is a diagnostic tool that's very useful to us in finding problems. It will show you a snapshot of your drive which will show where it is installed and you can remove it. Post the log file here, if you need help. It will contain no personal information.

It monitors the Internet.

http://www.ascentive.com/products/beaware/

Hi - Found "BeAware" in my Launchpad as well. Closed it from Activity Monitor but cannot find it in Finder. Ran Malwarebytes and cleared anything it found, but "BeAware" is still there. Restarting my machine restarts the application as well.

Any help to get rid of it would be appreciated