What is Mac Purifier?
Mac Purifier is a rogue application designed to trick users into paying for nothing. Mac Purifier operates in quite the same way as other similar PUPs like Mac Tonic, Advanced Mac Tuneup, Safe Cleaner for Mac and Smart Mac Care. At first, it detects any bugs in your system supposedly affecting its performance, and then demands money to fix them. Actually, it’s just a scam and probably there is nothing wrong with your computer. Developers just earn money that way, so don’t buy the full version. Among other things, it generates a lot of annoying overlay advertisements and causes redirects to sponsored pages. Given all this, you are advised to remove Mac Purifier if you have it installed asap.
Step 1. How to remove Mac Purifier from Mac?
In many cases you are not able to uninstall malware using standard Mac options. In order to remove Mac Purifier you need a proper and reliable removal tool.
CleanMyMac – fully removes all instances of Mac Purifier from Mac and Safari. With this program, the removal process becomes much simpler – it is able to clean your computer from Mac Purifier and other unwanted applications in just a few clicks.
Combo Cleaner – can find malicious program that is corrupting your system and clean up junk files after removal.
Step 2: Remove Advanced Mac Cleaner from Mac (main source of Mac Purifier pop-up)
Perhaps, you will not find the program with the same name – Advanced Mac Cleaner. Nevertheless, you need to review attentively the list of last installed applications and remove all suspicious ones related to Advanced Mac Cleaner.
Mac OSX:
- Launch Finder
- Select Applications in the Finder sidebar.
- If you see Uninstall Advanced Mac Cleaner or Advanced Mac Cleaner Uninstaller, double-click it and follow instructions
- Drag unwanted application from the Applications folder to the Trash (located on the right side of the Dock)
Now let’s go to the next step.
Step 3: Remove Mac Purifier from browsers
Safari:
- Click Preferences from Safari menu
- Select Extensions.
- Find Mac Purifier or other extensions that look suspicious.
- Click Uninstall button to remove it.
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner.
- Click Tools then select Extensions.
- Find Mac Purifier or other extensions that look suspicious.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Click Tools on the top of the Firefox window, then click Add-ons.
- Find Mac Purifier or other extensions that look suspicious.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
There are all the manual instructions that will help you to find Mac Purifier on your Mac computer and remove it. The most effective method to get rid of Mac Purifier is to perform the manual removal instructions and then use CleanMyMac automatic tool. The manual method will weaken the malicious program and the program will remove it. Thank you for your attention.