How to remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up

What is “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up?

You may face “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up if your system is infected with adware. In most cases, adware enters the user’s machine secretly together with freeware programs. Once installed, it hijacks browser to be able to redirect the user to malvertising domains such as Funnymonday48.live, Apple.com-optimizing-mac.live, Funnytues104.live and so on. As we see, only the names of the domain change and the content remains the same:

Your system is infected with 3 viruses!
Your Mac is infected with 3 viruses. Our security check found traces of 2 malware and 1 phishing/spyware. System damage: 28.1% – Immediate removal required!
The immediate removal of the viruses is required to prevent further system damage, loss of Apps, Photos or other files.
Traces of 1 phishing/spyware were found on your Mac with MacOS 10.13 High Sierra.
Personal and banking information is at risk.
To avoid more damage click on ‘Scan Now’ immediately. Our deep scan will provide help immediately!

Therefore, if you are seeing this pop-up alert, you should know that this is just a scam. All this done is to trick users into downloading fake “anti-malware program” that will not only fail to fix the problem but will, on the contrary, create many new ones. Instead, you may follow our step-by-step guide to uninstall adware and remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up.

How to remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up?

1. Remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up automatically
2. Uninstall “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up from the Appications
3. Remove rogue software from Profiles
4. Delete malcious elements using Terminal
5. Remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up From Browsers

Automatic removal of “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up

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Steps of “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up manual removal

Remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up from Applications

As it was stated before, more likely that the adware appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.

1. Open a Finder window
2. Click Applications line on the sidebar
3. Try to find applications related to “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up (for example: some applications that you never installed yourself). Select them, right-click it and choose Move to Trash

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Remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up from Profiles

1. Launch System Preferences
2. Select Profiles at the bottom of window.
3. Choose AdminPrefs profile, click “-“ icon and enter password.

Remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up using Terminal

1. Open Terminal
2. Copy/paste:
   defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
3. Press Return
4. Hold the Option/alt key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch
5. Navigate to: /Users/yourmacname/Library/Application Support/
6. Delete Folder: Agent
7. Go back to Terminal and copy/paste:
   defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO
8. Press Return
9. Hold the Option/alt key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch

Remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up from browsers

Since most of the adware 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 “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up from Safari

1. Start Safari
2. Click on Safari menu button, then go to the Extensions
3. Delete “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them

How to remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up from Google Chrome

1. Start Google Chrome
2. Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
3. Delete “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them

How to remove “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up from Mozilla Firefox

1. Start Mozilla Firefox
2. Click on the right-upper corner button
3. Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
4. Delete “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them

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If the above-mentioned methods didn’t help in eliminating the threat, then it’s better to rely on an automatic way of deleting “Your Mac is heavily damaged” pop-up.

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