You can also save yourself a whole lot of grief by using my shareware troubleshooting tool DetectX Swift, which will not only find all these pesky elements for you, it’ll remove them all for you, too. ~/Library/Application Support/MacOptimizer ~/Library/Application Support/Mac Mechanic ~/Library/Application Support/Mac Auto Fixer ~/Library/Application Support/Advanced Mac Cleaner Volumes/MacAutoFixer/.hlpr/Mac Auto Fixer Library/Application Support/MacOptimizer Library/Application Support/Mac Mechanic Library/Application Support/Advanced Mac Cleaner After uninstalling McAfee DLP Endpoint, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup.
Here’s a 40-second video showing how Mac users get tricked into installing AMC and its fake virus scanner:įor those of you that want to remove Mac Auto Fixer and related manually, here’s a list of most of the paths you should look for:
Like all the other forms of AMC, this app gets bundled in with fake Flash installers and writes itself all over your Mac to multiple places inside your user and local domain Library folders. Aside from ‘AMC’, it’s also distributed as Mac Tonic, Mac Mechanic, Malware-Crusher, Mac Optimizer and now, the most recent form we’re seeing, Mac Auto Fixer. Advanced Mac Cleaner is produced by PCVark and has many incarnations.
