What is Tapu Find?
Tapu Find is an annoying computer infection called browser hijacker. A browser hijacker is a small application which is often installed as a browser extension. After infiltration, it takes over web browser altering its configuration without the user’s consent. It is expressed in changing homepage and main search engine to http://search.tapufind.com/ in order to force the victim to use only this search domain and to make it unchangeable. The aim of this malware is to get users to visit certain predetermined pages and to promote third-party products, some of which can be dangerous for your computer health. That’s why we encourage the victims of the hijacker to take immediate measures and to remove Tapu Find search.
How Tapu Find got installed on your computer?
If you want to prevent the Tapu Find infection, you need to check the contents of every installation that you perform. We say so because very often freeware contains malware disguised as additional installation elements. You can learn the components of the setup by reading the EULA and other information that is given on installation wizard screens. If you see that there are some applications that added to the main program and that you don’t want to have on your system, it’s better to cancel the process.
Symptoms of Tapu Find infection
- First and the most striking proof of having a browser hijacker is a change of the main page. Usually, it is a search engine page that is designed so that user would believe in its legitimacy.
- Generally, hijackers cause redirections when the user makes a search query on its page or tries to reach a blocked site (usually another search engine or anti-malware sites)
- Another indicator of hijacker infection is an appearance of new programs, toolbars and browser extensions that you don’t remember installing and processes in start-up queue.
- Also, you may notice the significant slowdown in the system operating, since running of the applications required for malware activity may consume a lot of CPU.
- Besides, hijacker infection may as well negatively affect the speed of Internet connection.
How to remove Tapu Find?
To make sure that the hijacker won’t appear again, you need to delete Tapu Find completely. For this, you need to remove the application then check the drives for such leftovers as Tapu Find 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 Antivirus is a powerful tool that is able to keep your Mac clean and protect it from various kinds of unwanted applications. It would automatically search out and delete all elements related to Tapu Find. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate Tapu Find, but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of Tapu Find manual removal
Uninstall Tapu Find 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 Tapu Find you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
Remove Tapu Find from Applications
- Open a Finder window
- Click Applications line on the sidebar
- Select the application related to Tapu Find right-click it and choose Move to Trash
Remove Tapufind 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 Tapu Find 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 Tapu Find from Safari
- Start Safari
- Click on Safari menu button, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Tapu Find or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Tapu Find from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Tapu Find or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Tapu Find from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Tapu Find 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 Tapu Find.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after Tapu Find 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 Tapu Find.
