I've been trying to get rid of Malwarebytes for a long time. Yesterday I upgraded to Mojave 10.14 and then removed some program that looked like a Malware associate. Rebooted and the Malwarebyte icon disappeard from the top of my screen on my '13 MacBook Air. Yea!!!
A short time later, the Malwarebyte icon popped back up at the top of the screen.
I DON'T see anything in Finder/Applications that looks related to Malware. Anyone know a 100% move to delete this from my MBA other than to zero the computer back to factory status conditions?
There are several very good tools easy to find, many of them free or at least free to try, which delete all the associated system remnants of any application one does not want any more.
Other, more general tools, offered to "clean/improve" the system, have also usually an "uninstalling" section.
However to make
before trying any of them a bootable clone of the main drive and to make TimeMachine backups... are always good measures
before installing something new one is not absolutely sure one will keep.
"Malwarebytes" is certainly not the only application leaving remnants in many places and, besides, to get entirely read of any no more wanted software
is a very old computer problem.
I remember fierce battles with the Registry of Windows to get rid for instance of Norton/Symantec Antivirus or Nero burning application.
They were everywhere!
Not long ago I found out that the so called "Spring Creators Update" of Windows 10 would not be installed as long as my free "Avira" antivirus was in the OS.
As you, after deleting it I looked for
every possible place where some component of it could still be hiding... without success...
Windows 10
still complained that "Avira" was installed... and at the end I had no choice than erasing Windows and installing a new one.
I often understand why my wife
hates computers
ed
