Is There A Chrome Clean Up Tool For Mac?

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The Google Chrome web browser is perhaps best known for its high level of customization and for its speed, among other qualities. With tens of thousands of add-ons and extensions available, along with independent processes for each open tab, Chrome's appearance and feature set can be tailored to your liking without sacrificing a great deal of its performance.

One downside to the browser's flexibility, however, is that you occasionally end up with unwanted programs or settings that can range from minor annoyances to potentially dangerous malware. If this happens you might run into an error message, such as the 'Unusual traffic' error.

Once available as a standalone program, the Chrome Cleanup tool is now a part of the actual browser itself and can detect and remove harmful software along with restoring hijacked settings back to their original state.

What Is Chrome Clean Up Tool

Using the Chrome Cleanup Tool

If you are experiencing undesirable symptoms such as intrusive pop-up ads and unexpected web pages appearing, your search engine and homepage being redirected to services and sites that you've never heard of before or just general slowness in your browser, then you should first check for and remove any unwanted programs.

The browser will periodically check for suspicious programs on its own, letting you know whenever something untoward is discovered and offer the option to remove it. You can manually check for these problem programs as well by taking the following steps.

1. Open your Chrome browser.

2. Click on the main menu button, located in the upper right-hand corner and represented by three dots.

3. When the drop-down menu appears, select Settings. You can also enter the following text in Chrome's address bar (or Omnibox) in lieu of clicking on this menu item: chrome://settings

4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Advanced.

5. Scroll further until you locate the Reset and clean up section.

6. Select the Clean up computer option.

7. Click on the FIND button, located to the right of the Find and remove harmful software option.

8. A message labeled Checking for harmful software... will now be displayed, accompanied by a spinning wheel. This process can take several minutes to complete, so be patient. If any suspicious programs are found, you will then be given the option to remove one or more of them. Chrome will also disable extensions at this point.

Chrome for macOS does not offer this feature, but you can still remove unwanted programs manually.

1. Open a new Finder window and choose Applications from the left-menu pane, or click on the Applications icon in the dock.

2. Peruse the list of programs shown and see if anything looks out of place. If you see one or more applications that you are not comfortable with, right-click on each one and select the Move to Trash option.

3. Return to the desktop and right-click on the Trash icon.

4. When the pop-up menu appears, select Empty Trash.

Use caution here, as you do not want to accidentally remove any reputable applications that you might need later on. You may also want to disable extensions, either one at a time or all in one fell swoop, to see if one or more of these third-party add-ons could be the cause of your issues.

Resetting Your Browser Settings

If removing unwanted programs didn't solve your problems, you may want to reset your browser's settings back to their default state.

Chrome Clean Up Tool Webside

1. Open your Chrome browser.

2. Click on the main menu button, located in the upper right-hand corner and represented by three dots.

3. When the drop-down menu appears, select Settings. You can also enter the following text in Chrome's address bar (or Omnibox) in lieu of clicking on this menu item: chrome://settings

4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Advanced.

5. Scroll further until you locate the Reset and clean up section on Windows, or the Reset settings section on Chrome OS, Linux or macOS.

6. On Windows, choose the Restore settings to their original defaults option and then click the RESET SETTINGS button. On Chrome OS, select the Reset option and then click the RESET button. On Linux and macOS, select the Reset settings option and then click the RESET button.

7. Your Chrome settings will now be restored to their default values.

BleepingComputer Review:

The Chrome Cleanup Tool is a program written by Google that will scan a computer for programs that cause problems in Google Chrome. The targeted applications are potentially unwanted programs, malware, badware, and adware extensions that cause advertisements or other wanted actions to appear in Chrome.

Using the Chrome Cleanup Tool is very easy. Simply download it, run it, and let it scan your computer for unwanted programs. If it detects any unwanted programs, it will alert you and wait for you to remove them. Once the programs are removed, it will reset Google back to its default settings.

It is important to note that after the Chrome Cleanup Tool has finished running and you close the program, it will automatically delete itself. So do not be surprised if you run it once, but are unable to find it again when you attempt to run it at a later date.

The known programs removed by the Chrome Cleanup Tool are:

• BrowseFox
• PullUpdate
• Vitruvian
• V-Bates
• SearchProtect
• SupTab
• MySearchDial
• SaveSense
• Price Meter
• Mail.ru Sputnik/Guard
• Conduit Toolbars, Community Alerts & ValueApps
• Wajam
• Multiplug
• Shopper Pro
• Stormwatch
• SmartBar
• Dealply
• SmartWeb
• MySearch123
• AdPea
• Etranslator
• CouponMarvel
• PriceFountain
• Techsnab
• Colisi
• BrApp
• LuckyTab
• OneCall
• Crossrider
• Eorezo
• Consumer Input
• Content Defender
• Movie Dea

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