'Search Genius' is distributed in the form of a fake updater for 'Adobe Flash Player.' You may have been prompted by a popup on a website to update Flash. Open this folder as in Step 1:Īnd move to the Trash the subfolder with the nameĭon't move the Application Support folder or anything else inside it.Ħ. In Safari, first load the home page you want, then selectĥ. Reset the home page in each of your browsers, if it was changed. Do the equivalent in the Chrome and Firefox browsers, if you use either of those.Ĥ. Uninstall all extensions you don't know you need. Other files in the folder are not necessarily malicious (though they could be, if you also installed some other kind of malware.) There may not be anything else in the LaunchAgents folder in that case, you can delete the folder, but otherwise don't delete it. Inside the folder you just opened, there may be one or more files with a name that begins as follows: A folder named 'LaunchAgents' will open.Ģ. You may not see what you pasted because a line break is included. Triple-click the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:įrom the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. Anyone finding this comment a few days or more after it was posted should look for a more recent discussion, or start a new one.ġ. This procedure works as of now, as far as I know. Malware is always changing to get around the defenses against it. Please take the steps below to disable it. You installed the 'Search Genius' malware. There is never a need for it, and relying on it for protection makes you more vulnerable to attack, not less.

Don't use any kind of 'anti-virus' or 'anti-malware' product on a Mac.

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