What is Shortcutcommander.club?
Shortcutcommander.club may replace homepage/search engine of a browser and resist to prevent these changes. The reason you are seeing this search page is a browser hijacker. Browser hijacker is a type of malware which is used for link promotion and advertising purposes. This one affects only Mac computers in order to promote sponsored apps (MacKeeper) and third-party content. Consequently, a user will face altered search results, various pop-up advertisements, constant redirects, all of this is to make you visit certain websites. At worst, you may end up infecting your computer with other malware programs or even viruses. Thus, we advise you to remove Shortcutcommander.club asap. There are 2 solutions to this problem – use automatic or manual ways. Just know that manual removal might require above-average skills, so if you don’t feel experienced enough, you may apply to the automatic removal tool.
How to remove Shortcutcommander.club?
To make sure that the hijacker won’t appear again, you need to delete Shortcutcommander.club completely. For this, you need to remove the application then check the drives for such leftovers as Shortcutcommander.club files and registry entries.
We should warn you that performing some of the steps may require above-average skills, so if you don’t feel experienced enough, you may apply to automatic removal tool.
Norton is a powerful tool that is able to keep your Mac clean. It would automatically search out and delete all elements related to Shortcutcommander.club. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate Shortcutcommander.club, but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of Shortcutcommander.club manual removal
Uninstall Shortcutcommander.club from the system
As it was stated before, more likely that the hijacker appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of Shortcutcommander.club you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
Remove Shortcutcommander.club from Applications
- Open a Finder window
- Click Applications line on the sidebar
- Select the application related to Shortcutcommander.club right-click it and choose Move to Trash
Remove Shortcutcommander.club from Profiles
- Launch System Preferences
- Select Profiles at the bottom of window.
- Choose AdminPrefs profile, click “-“ icon and enter password.
Remove Shortcutcommander.club 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 Shortcutcommander.club 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 Shortcutcommander.club from Safari
- Start Safari
- Click on Safari menu button, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Shortcutcommander.club or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Shortcutcommander.club from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Shortcutcommander.club or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Shortcutcommander.club from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Shortcutcommander.club 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 Shortcutcommander.club.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after Shortcutcommander.club removal to make sure that it is completely gone. The antimalware application will detect any vicious components left among system files and registry entries that can recover Shortcutcommander.club.
