How To Remove Arcahol(AppIR) browser hijacker on macOS and Mac OS X?


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This removal guide is for the latest version of Arcahol for Mac. To completely remove Arcahol, we have done much technical analysis on it. If you want to remove Arcahol manually, you need to know the following installation information.

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1> Information of Arcahol installer:

  • Format: dmg
  • Size: 864 KB

The following is the information about files, folders and processes after Arcahol is installed. With this information in hand we can now manually uninstall Arcahol completely.

2> Basic information of the app:

  • Size: 2.1 MB

3> Add-on software:

  • Uninstall Arcahol.app
  • Arcahol.app

4> Process information:

    4.1 Main process:

    • AppIR
    4.2 Associated process:

    • AppIR

5> Folders:

  • Uninstall Arcahol
  • Arcahol

6> Files:

  • Arcahol.AppVemoral.plist
  • Arcahol.btvlit.plist
  • Arcahol.dolnwoad.plist
  • Arcahol.uadpte.plist
  • com.Arcahol.global.settings.plist
  • com.Arcahol.plist
  • com.Arcahol.settings.plist

7> Framework/Extensions/XPC/Plugins

  • Arcahol-2.safariextz

Simply dragging Arcahol to Trash cannot uninstall it completely to free disk space on Mac OS but leave a lot of remnant files.

How to manually remove Arcahol completely?

  • 8.1> Start Activity Monitor. Select the process name “Arcahol” and hit the “Force Quit” button.
  • 8.2> Open Applications folder. Find “Arcahol” and drag it to Trash.
  • 8.3> Open Finder or Spotlight. Search for Arcahol files and folders and delete them.

How to automaticlly remove Arcahol ?

Download MacRemover

  • 9.1> Install and Start MacRemover
  • 9.2> Launch the MacRemover, highlight the icon of Arcahol and then click “Run Analysis”, which will scan out all the traces of the unwanted application automatically.
  • 9.3> Click on the “Complete Uninstall” button and then choose “YES” to confirm your operation.

Watch the video: How to remove Arcahol


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