How to uninstall ProcessSign adware

What is ProcessSign?

ProcessSign is one of many potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) categorized as adware. Adware serves various intrusive advertisements. Furthermore, these apps often track and record information. Note that users often download and install PUAs inadvertently.

Generally, adware such as ProcessSign feeds users with advertisements that are displayed in the form of banners, coupons, surveys, pop-ups, and others. These ads often conceal content of visited pages and, if clicked, open dubious, potentially malicious pages, and cause download/installation of unwanted apps by running certain scripts.

PUAs also gather various information relating to users' browsing habits. For example, addresses of visited pages, entered search queries, IP addresses, geolocations, and other browsing data. Research shows that ProcessSign can read sensitive information from websites such as passwords, telephone numbers, credit card details, and other sensitive data.

The developers can misuse this information to make fraudulent purchases, transactions, steal identities, sell gathered information to third parties (potentially, cyber criminals), and perform other malicious actions.

ProcessSign users might then suffer financial loss, become victims of identity theft, experience problems relating to browsing safety, online privacy and other serious issues. Therefore, ProcessSign and other similar apps should never be downloaded or installed.

Threat Summary:

Name	Ads by ProcessSign
Threat Type	Adware, Mac malware, Mac virus.
Detection Names	Avast (MacOS:Adload-AB [Trj]), AVG (MacOS:Adload-AB [Trj]), ESET-NOD32 (A Variant Of OSX/Adware.Synataeb.C), Sophos AV (Adloadr (PUA)), Full List (VirusTotal)
Additional Information	This application belongs to Adload malware family.
Symptoms	Your Mac becomes slower than normal, you see unwanted pop-up ads, you are redirected to dubious websites.
Distribution methods	Deceptive pop-up ads, free software installers (bundling), fake Flash Player installers, torrent file downloads.
Damage	Internet browser tracking (potential privacy issues), display of unwanted ads, redirects to dubious websites, loss of private information.
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ProcessSign is similar to TaskBrowser, MoreResults, AddUpgrade and many other adware-type applications. Generally, software of this type displays intrusive, often deceptive advertisements. Furthermore, adware often tracks information.

These adware-type applications are advertised as legitimate and useful, however, most do not operate as promised or deliver any useful features or any other value - they simply cause various issues.

How did ProcessSign install on my computer?

In most cases, users download and install PUAs unintentionally by clicking deceptive advertisements designed to execute certain scripts, or by downloading and installing programs that have PUAs included into the set-ups. Typically, PUAs are included into software set-ups as "additional offers", which can be found in settings such as "Custom", "Advanced", etc.

This PUA distribution method is called "bundling" and is used to trick people into downloading and installing unwanted apps together with other, regular programs. When users leave the settings unchanged, they often allow PUAs to be downloaded and installed together with programs that they wish to download and install intentionally.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications

You are advised to download all software from official websites and through direct links. Channels such as third party downloaders, installers, Peer-to-Peer networks (e.g., torrent clients, eMule), unofficial pages, etc., should not be used to download or install software - they are commonly used to distribute unwanted, potentially malicious apps.

Furthermore, downloads and installations should not be completed without first checking settings such as "Custom" and "Advanced" - decline offers to download or install additional, unwanted apps. Intrusive ads that appear on various dubious pages can open untrusted websites or download and install unwanted software.

Therefore, it is not safe to click such ads. Remove any unwanted, unknown apps (extensions, add-ons, plug-ins) from the browser immediately.

The same should be applied to software of this kind that is installed on the operating system. If your computer is already infected with ProcessSign, we recommend running a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus for macOS to automatically eliminate this adware.

Pop-up window displayed once ProcessSign installation is complete:

ProcessSign redirecting users to Safe Finder website via akamaihd.net:

ProcessSign adware installed on Safari:

 

ProcessSign installation folder and its files:

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Quick menu:

• What is ProcessSign?
• STEP 1. Remove ProcessSign related files and folders from OSX.
• STEP 2. Remove ProcessSign ads from Safari.
• STEP 3. Remove ProcessSign adware from Google Chrome.
• STEP 4. Remove ProcessSign ads from Mozilla Firefox.

Video showing how to remove ProcessSign adware using Combo Cleaner:

ProcessSign adware removal:

Remove ProcessSign-related potentially unwanted applications from your "Applications" folder:

Click the Finder icon. In the Finder window, select "Applications". In the applications folder, look for "MPlayerX", "NicePlayer", or other suspicious applications and drag them to the Trash. After removing the potentially unwanted application(s) that cause online ads, scan your Mac for any remaining unwanted components.

Remove adware-related files and folders

Click the Finder icon, from the menu bar. Choose Go, and click Go to Folder...

Check for adware generated files in the /Library/LaunchAgents/ folder:

In the Go to Folder... bar, type: /Library/LaunchAgents/

In the "LaunchAgents" folder, look for any recently-added suspicious files and move them to the Trash. Examples of files generated by adware - "installmac.AppRemoval.plist", "myppes.download.plist", "mykotlerino.ltvbit.plist", "kuklorest.update.plist", etc. Adware commonly installs several files with the exact same string.

Check for adware generated files in the ~/Library/Application Support/ folder:

In the Go to Folder... bar, type: ~/Library/Application Support/

In the "Application Support" folder, look for any recently-added suspicious folders. For example, "MplayerX" or "NicePlayer", and move these folders to the Trash.

Check for adware generated files in the ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ folder:

In the Go to Folder... bar, type: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

In the "LaunchAgents" folder, look for any recently-added suspicious files and move them to the Trash. Examples of files generated by adware - "installmac.AppRemoval.plist", "myppes.download.plist", "mykotlerino.ltvbit.plist", "kuklorest.update.plist", etc. Adware commonly installs several files with the exact same string.

Check for adware generated files in the /Library/LaunchDaemons/ folder:

In the "Go to Folder..." bar, type: /Library/LaunchDaemons/

In the "LaunchDaemons" folder, look for recently-added suspicious files. For example "com.aoudad.net-preferences.plist", "com.myppes.net-preferences.plist", "com.kuklorest.net-preferences.plist", "com.avickUpd.plist", etc., and move them to the Trash.

Scan your Mac with Combo Cleaner:

If you have followed all the steps correctly, your Mac should be clean of infections. To ensure your system is not infected, run a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus. Download it HERE. After downloading the file, double click combocleaner.dmg installer. In the opened window, drag and drop the Combo Cleaner icon on top of the Applications icon. Now open your launchpad and click on the Combo Cleaner icon. Wait until Combo Cleaner updates its virus definition database and click the "Start Combo Scan" button.

Combo Cleaner will scan your Mac for malware infections. If the antivirus scan displays "no threats found" - this means that you can continue with the removal guide; otherwise, it's recommended to remove any found infections before continuing.

After removing files and folders generated by the adware, continue to remove rogue extensions from your Internet browsers.

Remove malicious extensions from Internet browsers

Remove malicious Safari extensions:

Open the Safari browser, from the menu bar, select "Safari" and click "Preferences...".

In the preferences window, select "Extensions" and look for any recently-installed suspicious extensions. When located, click the "Uninstall" button next to it/them. Note that you can safely uninstall all extensions from your Safari browser - none are crucial for regular browser operation.

• If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements - Reset Safari.

Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "More Tools" and click "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious extensions, select these entries and click "Remove".

• If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements - Reset Google Chrome.

Remove malicious extensions from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window) and select "Add-ons and themes". Click "Extensions", in the opened window locate all recently-installed suspicious extensions, click on the three dots and then click "Remove".

• If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements - Reset Mozilla Firefox.

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