If you don’t see this icon, your Mac doesn’t have additional profiles, so you can skip this part. [1] X Research source If you clicked Profiles, you’ll see all the different profiles created on your Mac.
You can do this for multiple suspicious or unknown profiles.
Right-click it and select Move to Trash to delete it. Some examples of malicious apps include TakeFresh, Feedback, TopResults, ApplicationEvents, PowerLog, MessengerNow, and GeneralOpen.
Right-click on the trash can icon on your Dock and select Empty Trash.
To open the “Go to Folder” window, you can press Shift + Command + G.
/Library/LaunchAgents or ~/Library/LaunchAgents /Library/Application Support /Library/LaunchDaemons You’ll want to look for files that you didn’t install. Some examples of the names of some of these files are “com. adobe. fpsaud. plis”, “installmac. AppRemoval. plist”, “myppes. download. plist”, and “com. myppes. net-preferences. plist. "
Right-click on the trash can icon on your Dock and select Empty Trash.
This means that every extension or changed setting will reset. If resetting Chrome does not work, it’s likely that the malicious program that you had installed on your Mac may have created policies on your browser. In that case, you’ll need to reset those policies with Terminal. Before you leave Chrome, go to “chrome://policy” to check if you have unauthorized policies on your Chrome. Open a Terminal window, and type the following lines: ‘defaults write com. google. Chrome HomepageIsNewTabPage -bool false’ and press Return ‘defaults write com. google. Chrome NewTabPageLocation -string “https://www. google. com/”’ and press Return ‘defaults write com. google. Chrome HomepageLocation -string “https://www. google. com/”’ and press Return ‘defaults delete com. google. Chrome DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL’ and press Return ‘defaults delete com. google. Chrome DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL’ and press Return ‘defaults delete com. google. Chrome DefaultSearchProviderName’ and press Return. Once you have entered those into a Terminal window, restart Chrome and go to “chrome://policy” to see if the same policies are there (click Reload Policies to show changes). If they are gone, you should be able to reset your Chrome as in the previous steps.
This means that every extension or changed setting will reset. If resetting Chrome does not work, it’s likely that the malicious program that you had installed on your Mac may have created policies on your browser. In that case, you’ll need to reset those policies with Terminal. Before you leave Chrome, go to “chrome://policy” to check if you have unauthorized policies on your Chrome. Open a Terminal window, and type the following lines: ‘defaults write com. google. Chrome HomepageIsNewTabPage -bool false’ and press Return ‘defaults write com. google. Chrome NewTabPageLocation -string “https://www. google. com/”’ and press Return ‘defaults write com. google. Chrome HomepageLocation -string “https://www. google. com/”’ and press Return ‘defaults delete com. google. Chrome DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL’ and press Return ‘defaults delete com. google. Chrome DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL’ and press Return ‘defaults delete com. google. Chrome DefaultSearchProviderName’ and press Return. Once you have entered those into a Terminal window, restart Chrome and go to “chrome://policy” to see if the same policies are there (click Reload Policies to show changes). If they are gone, you should be able to reset your Chrome as in the previous steps.
If you don’t have Malwarebytes, you can get a free download of the software, then opt to use Malwarebytes Free. If you want proactive protection, opt for Malwarebytes Premium, but the free version is enough for cleaning your Mac after removing extensions from Chrome.
This scan may take a few minutes, depending on the amount of data on your computer.
Once your Mac restarts, you should be free of the Chrome extensions that cause the “installed by administrator” error. [2] X Research source
