Advanced Mac Cleaner

Advanced Mac Cleaner is a PC optimization tool developed for MAC computers. More specifically, it is compatible with Mac OS X 10.7+. It is advertised on its official website advancedmaccleaner.com as a tool “designed and tested with utmost care” to make MAC computers run smoothly and error-free. Specialists working at pcthreat.com have tons of previous experience with similar PC optimizers, so they really doubt that it is as useful as it claims to be. Research has been carried out to find more information about Advanced Mac Cleaner and activities it performs once it is installed on the computer. Unfortunately, several disturbing findings have been made by specialists, so it has been decided to categorize this piece of software as a potentially unwanted program (PUP). Do not upgrade it by any means because it is not likely at all that it will boost the speed of your device or perform other beneficial activities. Some users find the deletion of this PC optimizer quite a complicated task, so this article contains information on its removal on purpose. Continue reading!

If we believe the information about Advanced Mac Cleaner available on its official website, it should clean computers to “reclaim lost drive space”, it should enable users to manage installed applications, browsing history, and system startups, and, finally, it promises to locate duplicate files and remove them to clear out the hard drive. It promises to work in a beneficial way, but it has turned out quickly that it is not the most trustworthy application. Our researchers have detected a bunch of users’ complaints on the web saying that pop-up windows having a label of Advanced Mac Cleaner keep appearing on their screens. Also, it seems that it is not even going to work beneficially unless it is upgraded. At the time of writing, its license costs 39.95 Euro plus VAT. Since its usefulness cannot be confirmed and many users find this application extremely irritating, it is not a very smart decision to invest in this suspicious PC optimizer. If you have already paid for the license using your credit card, you might want to contact your bank and try to get your money back.

Specialists also do not recommend keeping this program installed because it records personal information. It is clearly stated in one of its documents that users allow Advanced Mac Cleaner to record “certain information regarding the users of the Software, including certain personally identifiable information” by installing this program and keeping it on the computer. It will not only collect this information, but will also use it for certain purposes, for example, marketing purposes or just to find out more about users’ interests and habits. It is unclear what it is going to do with this recorded information, so go to eliminate it to stop it from gathering the sensitive data about you.

The official website of Advanced Mac Cleaner is advancedmaccleaner.com, but, judging from users’ complaints, not all of them install it willingly on their systems, meaning that it might be distributed in a different way as well. For example, this tool could have been installed on your MAC computer automatically after clicking on any of these unsolicited pop-ups offering to install useful software. Users usually encounter them on untrustworthy third-party websites on the web. This potentially unwanted program might also be promoted on certain websites (e.g. P2P web pages) as a perfect tool for cleaning the computer and boosting its performance. It is not the only one application that can be downloaded from suspicious pages even though it has an official website, so do not forget to take care of the system’s safety after the deletion of this PUP to protect the system from dangers.

Some users report that they find it extremely hard, or even impossible, to remove Advanced Mac Cleaner from their MAC computers, so our specialists have decided to prepare the manual removal guide. If it happens that this undesirable program is still working on the computer after you perform all the removal steps, you should go to use an automatic malware remover working on MAC computers. Keep in mind that not all the tools promoted on the web can be trusted.

Delete Advanced Mac Cleaner manually from MAC computers

1. Select the following line: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.pcv.hlpramc.plist .
2. Right-click on this highlighted line.
3. Select Services and click Reveal in Finder (or Reveal).
4. When a folder with a selected item opens, move this item to the Trash.
5. Restart the computer.
6. Move /Library/Application Support/amc to the Trash as in the 4th step.
7. Enter the required password if you are asked to do that.
8. Put ~/Library/AdvancedMacCleaner in the Trash.
9. Go to open the Applications folder.
10. Select the item Advanced Mac Cleaner and put it in the Trash.
11. Empty the Trash.