How To Remove Trovi From Mac

Posted By admin On 16.12.20
  1. How To Remove Trovi From Firefox
  2. How To Completely Remove Trovi Mac
  3. How To Remove Trovi From Mac 2019

Browser hijackers come in a variety of forms and names. They all have one thing in common, however. They hijack the settings in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox and set your homepage to where ever they want you to go. In the case of Trovi, that’s the website www.trovi.com. From there, it intercepts web searches in order to collect data and display adverts.

Mar 19, 2019  Trovi manual removal for Mac Open up the Utilities folder as shown below. Locate the Activity Monitor icon on the screen and double-click on it. Under Activity Monitor, find the entry for Trovi, select it and click Quit Process. A dialog should pop up, asking if you are sure you would like to. Open the AdwareMedic DMG file and drag the AdwareMedic file to your applications folder. Goto your applications folder and open AdwareMedic. When Mac OSX alerts you, this software is downloaded from the internet, agree and click Open. AdwareMedic is free, totally free but for their work you might want to do a donation.

Everything you need to know about the Trovi virus

Firstly, Trovi is not a virus, as it doesn’t self-replicate and copy itself from computer to computer. Instead, it comes bundled with other applications or tools you download from the web.

Once downloaded, Trovi installs itself and sets your browser homepage to trovi.com. If you land on that site, you’ll see that it’s a basic search engine. However, instead of displaying the highest-quality results for your search queries, it intercepts them, gathers data on you and your Mac, and then displays adverts. If you click on an advert, the cyber criminals behind Trovi get paid. And you land on a site that might also be infected with malware.

How to remove Trovi from your Mac

There are several steps to removing Trovi, including quitting the running process, removing the app, and restring the settings in all the browsers you use.

Step 1: Quit the process

  1. Launch Activity Monitor from Applications>Utilities.
  2. Locate the Trovi process in the list of processes on the left hand side and click on it.
  3. Press the Quit Process (looks like an ‘x’) button in the toolbar.

Step 2: Get rid of the app

  1. Go to your Applications folder and look for any applications that look suspicious or that you haven’t chosen to download.
  2. Drag them to the Trash and empty it.

Step 3: Change Safari’s settings

1. Launch Safari and click on the Safari menu, then choose Preferences.

2. Select the General tab and, next to Homepage, type the URL of the site you want to use as your homepage

3. Choose the Search tab and, if it doesn’t display your preferred search engine, change it to the one you want

Step 4: Remove Trovi from Chrome

  1. Launch Chrome.
  2. Press the More button at the right of the toolbar (it looks like three dots stacked on top of each other), and scroll down to Settings and click it. Alternatively, you can type or paste “chrome://settings” into the address bar.
  3. Scroll down to “On-startup” and check the box next to “Open a specific page or set of pages” and type or paste the URL of the page you want to use as your homepage.
  4. Look at the section just above that called “Search Engine” and make sure it’s set at your preferred search engine. If not, change it.

Remove Trovi from Firefox

  1. Click on the three horizontal lines to the right of the toolbar.
  2. Choose Preferences.
  3. In the window that opens, click on Home.
  4. Set “Homepage and new windows” to your preferred homepage.
  5. Choose Search in the sidebar.
  6. Set “Default Search Engine” to your favourite search engine.

How to remove Trovi virus with CleanMyMac X

If all that sounds like a lot of work with several steps, don’t worry. There is an easier way. CleanMyMac X has a Malware Removal utility that can detect Trovi, along with lots of other malware, and remove it with a couple of clicks. CleanMyMac’s malware database is updated regularly and it can scan your Mac for thousands of threats, including adware, spyware, viruses, worms, and more.

Here’s how to use it:

  1. Download and install CleanMyMac X, then launch it from your Applications folder.
  2. Choose Malware Removal in the left hand sidebar.
  3. Press Scan.
  4. When it’s finished, it will either give you a clean bill of health or tell you that there is malware on your Mac.
  5. Press Remove to get rid of the malware.

To avoid being attacked by Trovi, make sure that you only download applications you know are safe. Apple’s GateKeeper tool only allows you to download apps from developers Apple has approved. If it throws up a warning forcing you to visit System Preferences to manually allow an app to be downloaded, you should think very carefully and proceed only if you know the app is safe and not harbouring any nasty surprises in the form of Trovi or another piece of malware.
Fortunately, Trovi isn’t too difficult to remove. However, it is a lengthy process if you use several different browsers. Thankfully, there is an easier way. CleanMyMac X’s Malware Removal tool recognizes and can remove Trovi with a couple of clicks.

Uninstalling Software: The Basics


Most OS X applications are completely self-contained 'packages' that can be uninstalled by simply dragging the application to the Trash. Applications may create preference files that are stored in the /Home/Library/Preferences/ folder. Although they do nothing once you delete the associated application, they do take up some disk space. If you want you can look for them in the above location and delete them, too.


Some applications may install an uninstaller program that can be used to remove the application. In some cases the uninstaller may be part of the application's installer, and is invoked by clicking on a Customize button that will appear during the install process.


How To Remove Trovi From Firefox

Some applications may install components in the /Home/Library/Applications Support/ folder. You can also check there to see if the application has created a folder. You can also delete the folder that's in the Applications Support folder. Again, they don't do anything but take up disk space once the application is trashed.


Some applications may install a startupitem or a Log In item. Startupitems are usually installed in the /Library/StartupItems/ folder and less often in the /Home/Library/StartupItems/ folder. Log In Items are set in the Accounts preferences. Open System Preferences, click on the Accounts icon, then click on the LogIn Items tab. Locate the item in the list for the application you want to remove and click on the '-' button to delete it from the list.


Some software use startup daemons or agents that are a new feature of the OS. Look for them in /Library/LaunchAgents/ and /Library/LaunchDaemons/ or in /Home/Library/LaunchAgents/.


If an application installs any other files the best way to track them down is to do a Finder search using the application name or the developer name as the search term. Unfortunately Spotlight will not look in certain folders by default. You can modify Spotlight's behavior or use a third-party search utility, EasyFind, instead.


Some applications install a receipt in the /Library/Receipts/ folder. Usually with the same name as the program or the developer. The item generally has a '.pkg' extension. Be sure you also delete this item as some programs use it to determine if it's already installed.


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How To Completely Remove Trovi Mac


1. AppZapper

2. AppDelete

3. Automaton

4. Hazel

5. AppCleaner

6. CleanApp

7. iTrash

8. Amnesia

9.Uninstaller

10.Spring Cleaning


How To Remove Trovi From Mac 2019

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