How to remove “Your Mac is infected with 3 viruses” pop-up scam

What is “Your Mac is infected with 3 viruses” pop-up

Your Mac is infected with 3 viruses is a fake social-engineering trick that can suddenly appear alongside your browsing session. It was designed to urge naive users that their computers are infected and need an urgent scan to rectify detected threats. In fact, if you constantly see redirects to this page, then you might be truly infected with some malicious application, however, not with those they are imposing. These kinds of redirects are meant to promote system optimization tools and anti-malware software that ostensibly protects your system. However, all of this is a big fool and cannot be considered seriously. Instead, under the veil of legitimately-looking software, these applications are typically designed to display long lists of infections that do not exist. Unfortunately, free versions of these apps are not capable of removing all the viruses, therefore, trick you into opting for the paid version that will just clear out the fabricated list of issues. This means that extortionists employ this method simply for snatching money out of inexperienced users. On top of that, allegedly useful applications can modify system settings and gobble up myriads of computer resources hence slowing PC down significantly. “Your Mac is infected with 3 viruses” pop-up is a fraudulent trick that has to be avoided and removed from your computer by following the steps below.

How “Your Mac is infected with 3 viruses” pop-up infected your computer

Some dubious software can be found and downloaded from official websites. However, most frequently, developers use crafty methods to infiltrate devices without users’ consent. The most popular distribution channel is titled as bundling which means offering Unwanted Applications as additional offers alongside custom packages, repacks, and installation kits. Sadly, most of the users appear to be oblivious whilst downloading and installing something from the web. This careless attitude can lead to unknown infections of unwanted software that can thereby cause a horde of problems. Malicious redirects through shady advertisements can also make a lot of sense. Designed and hardwired for displaying various advertisements, it is able to drop users over to fake landing pages that offer doubtful optimization and antivirus tools with highlighted headlines to attract your attention. Luckily, we have gathered a bunch of effectively-categorized tools to remove such attacks from your computer and ensure system protection from a long-term perspective.

Remove “Your Mac is infected with 3 viruses” pop-up manually for free

Remove suspicious applications from MacOS

To start removing “Your Mac is infected with 3 viruses” pop-up you should uninstall unwanted programs from Applications in MacOS. Malware can be present by different names. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use CleanMyMac to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Mac.

Remove suspicious applications from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. Find unknown or suspicious applications.
3. Drag icons of suspicious applications from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Cannot uninstall Captchasafe.top in MacOS

If you can’t uninstall suspicious apps from MacOS using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries. Follow instructions below:

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag suspicious applications from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with suspicious applications.
4. Click Delete button.

Disable push notifications from suspicious websites in browsers in MacOS

Remove suspicious websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Safari

1. Open Safari, and in the top menu click Safari, choose Preferences.
2. In the Preferences window, click on Websites tab.
3. On the left side, choose Notifications. You will see the list of websites and their settings for showing notifications.
4. Find suspicious ones in the list and click Remove button.

Remove suspicious websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Google Chrome

1. Go to Google Chrome settings, by clicking 3-dots icon in the top-right corner and choosing Settings.
2. On the left side choose Privacy and security menu.
3. Under opened Privacy and security tab, choose Site Settings.
4. Scroll down to Permissions section and click on Notifications (with the bell icon).
5. Go to the bottom list of sites named Allowed to send notifications.
6. Find suspicious ones in the list and click 3-dots icon near it. Click Remove button to delete the website permission.

Remove suspicious websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Mozilla Firefox

1. Go to Mozilla Firefox options, by clicking 3-bars icon in the top-right corner and choosing Settings.
2. On the left panel choose Privacy & Security menu.
3. Scroll down to Permissions section.
4. Near Notifications click Settings… button.
5. Find suspicious ones in the list and click Remove Website to remove it.
6. Click Save Changes button to confirm the action.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Captchasafe.top from Control Panel often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has a browser extension and it may still be active in Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Captchasafe.top related extension from your browsers manually.

Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Click Extensions tab.
3. Find suspicious extension.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find suspicious or unwanted extension.
4. Click the Remove button to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Find suspicious or unwanted extension.
4. Click three-dots icon near it and choose Remove in the menu.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

How to block ads and pop-ups, like “Your Mac is infected with 3 viruses”

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Malicious push-notifications, in most cases, are caused by a program installed on your PC or an add-on installed in browsers. However, sometimes it can appear on a clean computer when visiting a malicious website, using an advertising script. Also, apps that generate “Your Mac is infected with 3 viruses” pop-up are themselves installed from other pop-ups. To protect your PC and browsers from phishing websites, pop-up ads, banners, malicious scripts it is recommended to use AdGuard. Download free trial here: