Complete Guide: How to Remove Advanced Mac Cleaner?

Are you a victim of Advanced Mac Cleaner program? Find out how to remove this and clean your Mac!

Sometimes browsing the internet may lead to downloading and installing several programs. Most of which however is installed unknowingly. These programs are often malicious and could infect viruses and harm your system or simply take away your information and force you into purchasing applications.

So what could be the best way to get rid of these programs? Uninstall them manually or by using software to remove it. In this post, we will learn how to remove Advanced Mac Cleaner which is notorious software. Read along to find out.

Advanced Mac Cleaner is a dangerous and deceptive application or PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) that poses to enhance your Mac’s performance by removing junk files and the like. This is tricky software that seems to be legitimate at first sight but goes into your system without any consent. This software will fake a complete computer scan and analyses to trick you into paying for the full version to supposedly clean the fake issues it displayed.

Apart from that, hackers and identity thefts are using this software to lure users into paying for the full version. There are so many PUPs out there just waiting for their next victims so you should be aware and be careful in downloading cleanup programs.

If you want to know how you can uninstall Advanced Mac Cleaner, check out the next part of this post.

You can also remove advanced Mac cleaner using the Utility tool. Follow this step by step process:

1. Launch the Utility folder
2. Find and double-click the Activity Monitor
3. Select Advanced Mac Cleaner among the lists displayed, Click Quit Process
4. Click Force Quit on the dialogue box asking you to confirm the removal
5. Click Go button and find Applications among the list.
6. Search Advanced Mac Cleaner and right click then Move to Trash. Enter password if required
7. Click on Apple Menu and click on System Preferences
8. Click login items and locate Advanced Mac Cleaner. Click the minus "-" button

You have just successfully uninstalled the Advanced Mac Cleaner program. However, take note that Advanced Mac Cleaner adds on the lists of programs that automatically run on user login. To remove it, follow these steps:

• Open System Preferences and click on Users & Groups
• Click your own account or the Current User
• Click Login Items and look for Advanced Mac Cleaner 
• Select and click the minus"-" button to remove the program

Advanced Mac Cleaner has its own website to really complete the foolishness. People who are unaware of this program will be easily tricked into purchasing the full package of the said software. They have a credible looking application but if you take a closer look and observe, there is something wrong with it. Little did they know that all these are the hoax and will only get them into serious trouble?

To better be sure that the software has been completely removed from your Mac, why not use an automatic tool? Check out the next parts below.

The main reasons for viruses and PUPs are poor knowledge and carelessness. Most of the time if we have less background in these programs, we don’t know where to go upon browsing the web and only end up installing something.

This can be easily avoided by being cautious and observant about malicious sites. Therefore, be alert when downloading and installing applications.

Ask questions or ask for guidance from people who are technical enough and can explain to you better. In this way, you can avoid future viruses and other harmful programs like the Advanced Mac Cleaner.

We have just learned how to remove Advanced Mac Cleaner and why this program is alarming. We hope that this article has helped you in any way possible to get of the PUPs.

In case you are experiencing this kind of issue, you can choose to download an automatic tool called Mac Uninstaller by iMyMac-PowerMyMac. It simply uninstalls all unnecessary programs and even monitors your Mac’s status.

Have you experienced the Advanced Mac Cleaner hoax? What have you done to remove it? Comment us below and share this post to your friends in case they are in the same situation.