What is MacWizz?
MacWizz is a potentially unwanted program for Mac OS similar to InstallWizz, SurfBuyer, MediaDownloader, and Wishapp. Once launched, MacWizz starts to fill the Internet pages with supposedly useful advertisement. It displays pop-up, coupon, banner related to lucrative offers. For instance, when you are looking for some product by visiting online store like Amazon or Best Buy, the program will show you best deals and competitive prices. Such information is provided in form the virtual tool that often conceals underlying content of visited webpages. In addition, that the such advertising is incredibly intrusive, it is also harmful. Developers, through the ads by MacWizz, promote useless and malicious software, other ones redirect you to questionable websites containing such types of infections like viruses, Trojans, and e.t.c. Therefore, the situation might be further compounded. This article is especially written to cope with the task in the fight against adware. Just follow the instructions to fully remove MacWizz from your Mac computer.
How MacWizz infects your Mac computer?
Developers often proliferates MacWizz using a misleading marketing method called “bundling” where the installation goes in stealth mode. Unfortunately, majority of charge-free software don’t properly notify that installation package includes additional programs. To prevent your computer from infection we advise you to be careful and never rush when you install free software. Always opt for the “Custom/Advanced” settings and never agree to install additional unnecessary programs. Remember, the key to computer safety is caution. Think about what you agree to install. You can also be exposed to the risk of infection of MacWizz by downloading illegitimate software from torrents or some cracks for games or programs. If you have already infected, you should use this guide to remove MacWizz from your Mac.
Step 1. How to remove SurfBuyer from Mac?
Such types of adware can be hard to remove completely as they always leave their leftovers files. This is done in order to be able to restore. I want to make it clear that this may require above-average skills to remove adware, so if you have no experience in this area, you may use automated removal tool.
CleanMyMac – fully removes all instances of SurfBuyer from Mac and Safari. After deep scanning of your system, it will easily find and delete SurfBuyer. Use this removal tool to get rid of SurfBuyer for FREE.
Combo Cleaner – can find malicious program that is corrupting your system and clean up junk files after removal.
Step 2: Remove MacWizz from Mac
Perhaps, you will not find the program with the same name – MacWizz. Nevertheless, you need to review attentively the list of last installed applications and remove all suspicious ones related to MacWizz.
Mac OSX:
- Launch Finder
- Select Applications in the Finder sidebar.
- If you see Uninstall MacWizz or MacWizz 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 MacWizz from browsers
Safari:
- Click Preferences from Safari menu
- Select Extensions.
- Find MacWizz 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 MacWizz 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 MacWizz or other extensions that look suspicious.
- Click Disable or Remove button.