What is top results.app?
top results.app is a potentially unwanted program that affects MacOS devices. Generally, it comes together with freeware programs (File Zilla) and is installed automatically if a user doesn’t opt out of optional top results.app. Once inside, it hijacks installed web-browsers corrupting their configuration. This may result in a search engine change or a sudden increase in advertising labeled as powered by Top Results, Ads by Top Results, Ads powered by Top Results, Advertisements by Top Results, Top Results Extension, Top Results App in your browsers. This is not so much a dangerous feature as annoying. You may follow this guide to uninstall browser hijacker and remove top results.app pop-ups from Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome.
How to remove top results.app?
- Remove top results.app automatically
- Uninstall top results.app from the Appications
- Remove rogue software from Profiles
- Delete malcious elements using Terminal
- Remove top results.app From Browsers
Automatic removal of top results.app
To make sure that the hijacker won’t appear again, you need to delete top results.app completely. For this, you need to remove the application then check the drives for such leftovers as top results.app files and registry entries.
Norton is a powerful tool that is able to keep your Mac clean. It would automatically search out and delete all elements related to top results.app. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate top results.app but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of top results.app manual removal
Remove top results.app from Applications
As it was stated before, more likely that the hijacker appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of top results.app you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
- Open a Finder window
- Click Applications line on the sidebar
- Try to find applications related to top results.app (for example: some applications that you never installed yourself). Select them, right-click it and choose Move to Trash
Remove top results.app from Profiles
- Launch System Preferences
- Select Profiles at the bottom of window.
- Choose AdminPrefs profile, click “-“ icon and enter password.
Remove top results.app using Terminal
- Open Terminal
- Copy/paste:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES - Press Return
- Hold the Option/alt key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch
- Navigate to: /Users/yourmacname/Library/Application Support/
- Delete Folder: Agent
- Go back to Terminal and copy/paste:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO - Press Return
- Hold the Option/alt key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch
Remove top results.app from browsers
Since most of the hijacker threats use a disguise of a browser add-on, you will need to check the list of extensions/add-ons in your browser.
How to remove top results.app from Safari
- Start Safari
- Click on Safari menu button, then go to the Extensions
- Delete top results.app or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove top results.app from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete top results.app or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove top results.app from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete top results.app or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
If the above-mentioned methods didn’t help in eliminating the threat, then it’s better to rely on an automatic way of deleting top results.app.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after top results.app removal to make sure that it is completely gone. The antimalware application will detect any vicious components left among the system that can recover top results.app.
