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Our marketing department called the IT department today and was seeing a big dialog box open about 'Mac Ads Cleaner' that had been installed on their MacOS systems. We had no idea at all how it got there. We tell them to try to quit it, removed it from autostart, and deleted the app out of the Applications folder. But the thing kept appearing again and again.Removing its stuff from the Library did not help either because another pop-up box appeared asking us to register Mac Ads Cleaner.
But our talented Steve figured out how to get rid of it.
Quick Fix
Restart into Safe Mode
Force quit the processes (Cmd+Option+Esc):
Advanced Password Manager
Mac Ads Cleaner
Malware Crusher
Unpollute My Mac
Hold the shift key when rebooting until apple icon appears.
Remove the files
Run the following
find / -iname com.techy* -exec rm -rf {} ;
find / -iname hlpradc -exec rm -rf {} ;
find / -iname adscleaner -exec rm -rf {} ; Dr cleaner for mac mini windows.
find / -iname helperamc -exec rm -rf {} ;
![Mac Mac](/uploads/1/3/3/9/133913201/400421165.png)
find / -iname ummhlpr -exec rm -rf {} ;
find / -iname amphelper -exec rm -rf {} ;
Details
Process Architecture
Creates per user daemons. So, there will be pieces in these locations:
~/Library/LaunchAgents How to import photos from icloud to macbook.
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
There are files such as com.techyutils.ummhlpr.plist
com.techyutils.mchlpr.plist
Some of them may even have root ownership. Dont let that fool you.
Inspecting those files, the following suspicious items are found:
com.adscleaner.hlpradc.plist -> ~/Library/Application Support/adc/hlpradc.app/Contents/MacOS/hlpradc
com.mackeeper.MacKeeper.Helper.plist -> /Applications/MacKeeper.app/Contents/Services/MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper
com.pcv.hlpramcn.plist
~/Library/Application Support/amc/helperamc.app/Contents/MacOS/helperamc
com.pcvark.APMHelper
~/Library/Application Support/apm/APMHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/APMHelper
com.techyutils.mchlpr.plist
~/Library/Application Support/MCR/mchlpr.app/Contents/MacOS/mchlpr
com.techyutils.ummhlpr.plist
~/Library/Application Support/umm/ummhlpr.app/Contents/MacOS/ummhlprGo ahead and remove the files.
File Locations
Here is a sample cross referencing the places that have been affected:
find / -iname mchlpr.app
~/Library/Application Support/MCR/mchlpr.app
/Applications/Malware Crusher.app/Contents/Resources/mchlpr.app
find / -iname com.techyutils*
/Applications/Malware Crusher.app/Contents/Resources/com.techyutils.mchlpr.plist
/Applications/Unpollute My Mac.app/Contents/Resources/com.techyutils.ummhlpr.plist
~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.techyutils.mac-ads-cleaner.sfl
/Library/Application Support/MCR/com.techyutils.mchlpr.plist
/Library/Application Support/umm/com.techyutils.ummhlpr.plist
~/Library/Caches/com.techyutils.Mac-Ads-Cleaner
~/Library/Caches/com.techyutils.Malware-Crusher
~/Library/Caches/com.techyutils.mchlpr
~/Library/Caches/com.techyutils.ummhlpr
~/Library/Cookies/com.techyutils.Mac-Ads-Cleaner.binarycookies
~/Library/Cookies/com.techyutils.Malware-Crusher.binarycookies
~/Library/Preferences/com.techyutils.Mac-Ads-Cleaner.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.techyutils.Malware-Crusher.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.techyutils.mchlpr.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.techyutils.ummhlpr.plist
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.techyutils.Mac-Ads-Cleaner.savedState
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.techyutils.Malware-Crusher.savedState find / -iname ummhlp*
~/Library/Logs/ummhlpr.log
~/Library/Application Support/umm/ummhlpr.app
~/Library/Application Support/umm/ummhlpr.app/Contents/MacOS/ummhlpr
/Applications/Unpollute My Mac.app/Contents/Resources/ummhlpr.app
/Applications/Unpollute My Mac.app/Contents/Resources/ummhlpr.app/Contents/MacOS/ummhlpr
~/Library/Application Support>sudo find / -iname prmpsc*
/Applications/Unpollute My Mac.app/Contents/Resources/prmpsc.plist
~/Library/Application Support/Unpollute My Mac/prmpsc.plist
~/Library/Application Support>sudo find / -iname settpsc*
/Applications/Unpollute My Mac.app/Contents/Resources/settpsc.plist
~/Library/Application Support/Unpollute My Mac/settpsc.plist
~/Library/Application Support>sudo find / -iname hlpradc*
/Applications/Mac Ads Cleaner.app/Contents/Resources/hlpradc.app
/Applications/Mac Ads Cleaner.app/Contents/Resources/hlpradc.app/Contents/MacOS/hlpradc
~/Library/Application Support/adc/hlpradc.app
~/Library/Application Support/adc/hlpradc.app/Contents/MacOS/hlpradc
~/Library/hlpradc
~/Library/Logs/hlpradc.log
~/Library/Application Support>sudo find / -iname com.ads*
/Applications/Mac Ads Cleaner.app/Contents/Resources/com.adscleaner.hlpradc.plist
~/Library/Application Support/adc/com.adscleaner.hlpradc.plist
~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.adscleaner.hlpradc.sfl
~/Library/Caches/com.adscleaner.hlpradc
~/Library/Preferences/com.adscleaner.hlpradc.plist ~/Library/Application Support>sudo find / -iname com.pcva*
/Applications/Advanced Password Manager.app/Contents/Resources/com.pcvark.APMHelper.plist
/private/var/db/receipts/com.pcvark.advancedPasswordManagerUpdate.Root.pkg.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.pcvark.advancedPasswordManagerUpdate.Root.pkg.plist
~/Library/Application Support>sudo find / -iname apmhelper*
/Applications/Advanced Password Manager.app/Contents/Resources/APMHelper.app
/Applications/Advanced Password Manager.app/Contents/Resources/APMHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/APMHelper
~/Library/Application Support/apm/APMHelper.app
~/Library/Application Support/apm/APMHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/APMHelper
~/Library/Logs/APMHelper.log
~/Library/Application Support>sudo find / -iname Mac File*
~/Library/Application Support/Mac File Opener
~/Library/Application Support/Mac File Opener/Mac File Opener.app/Contents/MacOS/Mac File Opener
Items to remove
~/Library/Application Support/Unpollute My Mac
/Applications/Unpollute My Mac.app /Applications/Mac Ads Cleaner.app
![Mac Mac](/uploads/1/3/3/9/133913201/865226395.jpg)
~/Library/Application Support/adc
~/Library/hlpradc ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.pcvark.APMHelper.plist
~/Library/Application Support/apm
/Applications/Advanced Password Manager.app ~/Library/Application Support/Mac File Opener
Advanced Mac Cleaner Removal
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Advanced Mac Cleaner Removal Tool
There are log files left behind that you can inspect to gain insight:
~/Library/Logs/ummhlpr.log
Things you can figure out:
Time it was installed: i.e. time stamp 2017-04-07 11:49:26
Their campaign tracking info for the the distibutor of the software.
Advanced Mac Cleaner Remove Popup
The files associated with it.