What is Dolohen.com?
If your Safari, Chrome, or Firefox constantly redirects your browser to Dolohen.com, you have a browser hijacker on your Mac/Macbook. The browser hijacker is a sort of malware that is used for advertising. The reason why it modifies settings of browser is simple – to trick users into believing they are dealing with a legitimate search engine. By abusing the trust of the people in that way, Dolohen.com provides users with inaccurate search results putting sponsored web sites at the top. The desire of developers to earn money by promoting third-party sites is also expressed in constant redirects that will occur each time you browse the Internet. Therefore, there is a high risk to end up on a malicious website since there is no guarantee that all links provided by this PUP are safe. The only way to avoid this scenario is to remove Dolohen.com as soon as possible.
How to remove Dolohen.com?
- Remove Dolohen.com automatically
- Uninstall Dolohen.com from the Appications
- Remove rogue software from Profiles
- Delete malcious elements using Terminal
- Remove Dolohen.com From Browsers
Automatic removal of Dolohen.com
To make sure that the hijacker won’t appear again, you need to delete Dolohen.com completely. For this, you need to remove the application then check the drives for such leftovers as Dolohen.com 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 malware. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate malware but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of Dolohen.com manual removal
Remove Dolohen.com 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 Dolohen.com 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 Dolohen.com (for example: some applications that you never installed yourself). Select them, right-click it and choose Move to Trash
Remove Dolohen.com from Profiles
- Launch System Preferences
- Select Profiles at the bottom of window.
- Choose AdminPrefs profile, click “-“ icon and enter password.
Remove Dolohen.com 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 Dolohen.com 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 Dolohen.com from Safari
- Start Safari
- Click on Safari menu button, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Dolohen.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Dolohen.com from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Dolohen.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Dolohen.com from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Dolohen.com 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 Dolohen.com.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after Dolohen.com removal to make sure that it is completely gone. The antimalware application will detect any vicious components left among the system that can recover Dolohen.com.
