How to remove AdvancedDisplay (Mac)

What is AdvancedDisplay

AdvancedDisplay is an advertising program that targets Mac users. It operates by changing browser settings to promote intrusive banners, pop-ups, and coupons from unwanted advertising campaigns. This means clicking on them may lead to various scam pages or suspicious websites that offer to download something. This something may be fake software or updates presented to be extremely important. Apart from generating unwanted ads, AdvancedDisplay may be able to install fake search engines upon legitimate Google, Yahoo, or Bing to fabricate traffic and earn money on it. In addition, unwanted programs like adware may be able to track your browsing session – collect passwords, IP addresses, geolocations, and other types of sensitive data that cybercriminals may capitalize on. Thus, we strongly encourage you to delete this application and prevent it from displaying dubious content. Learn how to use our instructions below.

How AdvancedDisplay infected your computer

Potentially Unwanted Programs like adware usually sneak into a system without the consent of users. It often occurs when users install pirated, cracked, or simply freeware software from unofficial third-party pages. AdvancedDisplay could be included in one of those third-party installers on torrent resources. As a rule, such software is promoted in the form of additional offers that users can decide to install or not on their own. Unfortunately, many users skip the entire installation process including “Advanced”, “Custom”, or similar sections containing promotional offers. Note that such offers may be advertised as something useful, but install completely different changes from what they claimed to. Because their installation is selected by default, skipping over will lead to inadvertent installations making users confused about how they appeared on their PCs. To improve protection against such infections in the future, follow our tutorial below.

1. Download AdvancedDisplay Removal Tool
2. Remove AdvancedDisplay from Login Items
3. Remove/Uninstall AdvancedDisplay from Applications
4. Remove AdvancedDisplay from browsers
5. Reset browser settings
6. Remove AdvancedDisplay files and folders
7. Block AdvancedDisplay ads and pop-ups
8. How to protect from threats, like AdvancedDisplay

Remove AdvancedDisplay manually for free

Note: AdvancedDisplay sets up to start on Mac OS startup. Therefore, before starting the removal, perform these steps:

1. Open System Preferences, choose Users & Groups.
2. Choose your account (set up as Current User).
3. Click Login Items tab.
4. Find “AdvancedDisplay” entry. Select it, and click the “-“ (minus) button to remove it.

Note 2: AdvancedDisplay won’t quit just by closing it, therefor use Force Quit to end the process.

1. Press 3 buttons at the same time: Option, Command, and Esc (Escape). This is similar to Control-Alt-Delete on a Windows PC.
2. Choose AdvancedDisplay in the list.
3. Click Force Quit button.

Here is a manual step-by-step tutorial for full AdvancedDisplay removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of AdvancedDisplay installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Remove AdvancedDisplay from Applications

Remove AdvancedDisplay from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. AdvancedDisplay might have an Uninstaller. If you see Uninstall AdvancedDisplay or AdvancedDisplay Uninstaller, double-click it and follow the onscreen instructions.
3. Otherwise, drag AdvancedDisplay from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Cannot uninstall AdvancedDisplay

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

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

Remove AdvancedDisplay add-on from your browsers

Removing AdvancedDisplay from Applications often does not bring the desired effect. It is a browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove the AdvancedDisplay 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 AdvancedDisplay 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 AdvancedDisplay extension.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Choose AdvancedDisplay extension.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Reset browser settings

To finish AdvancedDisplay removal reset your browser settings to make sure, there are no leftover items in browser folders.

Reset Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Go to the Privacy section of Safari’s preferences.
3. Click Remove All Website Data button.
4. In opened window click Remove Now button to remove data stored by websites in Safari.
5. Go to the Advanced section of Safari’s preferences.
6. Click the Show Develop menu in menu bar option.
7. In the menu click Develop and select Empty Caches from this menu.
8. Again, go to Safari menu and choose Clear History….
9. Choose to clear all history and click Clear History button.

Reset Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings.
3. Scroll down and find Show advanced settings link.
4. Click on it and scroll down to the bottom again.
5. Click Reset settings button and click Reset to confirm.

Reset Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
3. Click Refresh Firefox… button.
4. Click Refresh Firefox to confirm.

Remove following files and folders of AdvancedDisplay


~/Library/Application Support/.[random_string]/Services/com.AdvancedDisplay.service.app
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.AdvancedDisplay.service.plist
/Library/Application Support/.[random_string]/System/com.AdvancedDisplay.system
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.AdvancedDisplay.system.plist


Download AdGuard for Mac to block malicious pop-ups, that promote AdvancedDisplay

AdGuard is the best ad-blocker, internet filtering, and internet security application for macOS. It can cut out unwanted banners from site pages, block pop-ups, stop redirects, and prevent users from visiting potentially dangerous resources. Use it to stop ads promoting AdvancedDisplay in browsers.

How to protect Mac OSX from adware, like AdvancedDisplay

Mac OSX is known to be one of the safest operating systems, and for a long time, there was no need for antivirus products for Mac. But with the growing popularity of Mac computers and notebooks and evolving technology, viruses, trojans, adware, toolbars, hijackers, and other malware paved the way for Mac users. We recommend you to use one of the best anti-malware for Mac available – Malwarebytes for Mac.