How to remove Super Mac Cleaner

What is Super Mac Cleaner

Super Mac Cleaner is fake optimization utility for macOS, that uses the fraudulent scheme to force users to buy its license. Like many other similar applications, that promise to “clean up” your Mac, Super Mac Cleaner provides deceptive exaggerated results. It finds severe performance issues, hardware and software errors, duplicate files and other problems, that, possibly, never existed on your computer. If users ignore and just close this app, it starts the carousel of reminders, alerts, and warnings with the number of issues found and that it is necessary to fix them using Super Mac Cleaner. Besides, many users cannot remove this unwanted app using the standard procedure for macOS. In this article, we prepared simple instructions to remove Super Mac Cleaner and its leftovers and get rid of related alerts.

How Super Mac Cleaner infected your Mac

Developers of Super Mac Cleaner create phishing pages on dubious websites to promote the application. For example, the site apple.com-mac-optimizer.live was spotted advertising this malware. The domain name already looks suspicious, but it performs so-called “security scan” directly in the browser window, and offers Super Mac Cleaner as a solution. Of course, the real system cannot be scanned in such fashion, and virus just fools users into downloading bloatware. Here you can find a precise way to uninstall Super Mac Cleaner.

Remove Super Mac Cleaner manually for free

Note: Super Mac Cleaner sets up to start on Mac OS startup. Therefore, before starting 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 “Super Mac Cleaner” entry. Select it, and click the “-“ (minus) button to remove it.

Note 2: Super Mac Cleaner 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 Super Mac Cleaner in the list.
3. Click Force Quit button.

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

Remove Super Mac Cleaner from Applications

Remove Super Mac Cleaner from Mac:

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

Cannot uninstall Super Mac Cleaner

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

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

Remove following files and folders of Super Mac Cleaner


~/Library/Application Support/Super Mac Cleaner
~/Library/Logs/Super Mac Cleaner.log
~/Library/Super Mac Cleaner
~/Applications/Super Mac Cleaner.app
~/Library/Application Support/Super Mac Cleaner/supermaccleaner
~/Library/Application Support/Super Mac Cleaner/supermaccleaneruninstall
~/Library/Application Support/Super Mac Cleaner/com.supermaccleaneruninstall.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.supermaccleaner.super-mac-cleaner.plist


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