How to remove secureblogcn.com from Mac

What is secureblogcn.com?

secureblogcn.com is a rogue website. During the research time, it was promoting a scam based on VPN update scheme. The scammers aim to trick users into downloading/ installing and/or purchasing VPN software by deceptive claims. Such scams are used to endorse unreliable and dangerous products. Usually, various fake anti-viruses, adware, browser hijackers and other PUAs are distributed through these scams. People enter the rogue websites via mistyped URLs, redirects caused by intrusive ads or by installed PUAs.

More about secureblogcn.com scam

The secureblogcn.com scam claims that the users’ PC might be currently under the surveillance of crooks, insinuate that their personal data have been infected or imply that their VPN tools are outdated- depend on the scam variants you are encountered with. Regardless of how the scams approach to you, you are advised not to download/ install the recommended software on the rogue page. This is not more than a PUA that will never add anything useful to your system and the web browser. In fact the promoted app on secureblogcn.com scam is likely to be untrustworthy and hence cause harmful abilities.

The pages like secureblogcn.com are often visited when the systems already running some PUAs on the background. The PUAs force-open the dangerous pages and also deliver various intrusive advertisements in the form of coupons, banners, surveys, in-text ads and similar. What’s worse, these apps have dangerous data tracking feature as well. They track the users’ browsing session and collect the data related to their web browsing activities. The list of the collected data includes:

• IP addresses,
• Search queries,
• Viewed pages,
• URLs visited,
• ISP,
• Geo-locations,
• Type of OS and browser used and etc.

These data are often shared and/or sold to third parties/ potent crooks or misused them in doing illicit activities to generate revenue. Thus, the data tracking app can cause the trouble related to privacy, identity theft/ fraud and even more severe issues. To prevent such issues, remove all suspicious applications right away. Below the post you will find complete guide how to perform secureblogcn.com virus removal.

How did secureblogcn.com infiltrate my system?

PUAs can have their official download sites. These apps are also downloaded/ installed together with other programs. The false marketing method of packing one app with unwanted and malicious one is termed as software bundling. Rushing the download and skipping most of the installation sections- increase the risk of inadvertent installation of unwanted apps. Intrusive ads can cause PUAs download/ installation as well. Once clicked on, they run certain scripts to cause stealthy download/ installation.

Full text presented in one of secureblogcn.com scam variant’s page:

Someone May Be Watching

What You Browse

Your IP 104.236.233.182 could be exposed.

Someone may know your Apple iPhone

Follow three steps to encrypt your web traffic and change your IP address:

   

Click below to download VPN.

Open app, click connect button.

Browse web and apps anonymously.

5 minutes 46 seconds

Install Now Cancel

Another secureblogcn.com’s scam says this:

VPN update is recommended

Your browser might not display the webpage correctly.

Please install the recommended free VPN app to solve a potential problem.

Cancel

Install

How to prevent PUAs installation?

It is advised to research products well before their download/ install and/or purchase. Use only official website and direct links for any software download. During download/ installation, analyze each step using Custom/Advanced option and manually opt out all additionally attached apps. Intrusive ads appear legit and ordinary. However, they often open untrustworthy pages or sometimes may cause unwanted download by running certain scripts. Thus, these ads should never be clicked as well.

Remove Files and Folders Related to secureblogcn.com

Open the “Menu” bar and click the “Finder” icon. Select “Go” and click on “Go to Folder…”

Step 1: Search the suspicious and doubtful malware generated files in /Library/LaunchAgents folder

Type /Library/LaunchAgents in the “Go to Folder” option

In the “Launch Agent” folder, search for all the files that you have recently downloaded and move them to “Trash”. Few of the examples of files created by browser-hijacker or adware are as follow, “myppes.download.plist”, “mykotlerino.Itvbit.plist”, installmac.AppRemoval.plist”, and “kuklorest.update.plist” and so on.

Step 2: Detect and remove the files generated by the adware in “/Library/Application” Support folder

In the “Go to Folder..bar”, type “/Library/Application Support”

Search for any suspicious newly added folders in “Application Support” folder. If you detect any one of these like “NicePlayer” or “MPlayerX” then send them to “Trash” folder.

Step 3: Look for the files generated by malware in /Library/LaunchAgent Folder:

Go to Folder bar and type /Library/LaunchAgents

You are in the “LaunchAgents” folder. Here, you have to search for all the newly added files and move them to “Trash” if you find them suspicious. Some of the examples of suspicious files generated by malware are “myppes.download.plist”, “installmac.AppRemoved.plist”, “kuklorest.update.plist”, “mykotlerino.ltvbit.plist” and so on.

Step4: Go to /Library/LaunchDaemons Folder and search for the files created by malware

Type /Library/LaunchDaemons in the “Go To Folder” option

In the newly opened “LaunchDaemons” folder, search for any recently added suspicious files and move them to “Trash”. Examples of some of the suspicious files are “com.kuklorest.net-preferences.plist”, “com.avickUpd.plist”, “com.myppes.net-preference.plist”, “com.aoudad.net-preferences.plist” and so on.

Step 5: Use Combo Cleaner Anti-Malware and Scan your Mac PC

The malware infections could be removed from the Mac PC if you execute all the steps mentioned above in the correct way. However, it is always advised to be sure that your PC is not infected. It is suggested to scan the work-station with “Combo Cleaner Anti-virus”.

Once the file gets downloaded, double click on combocleaner.dmg installer in the newly opened window. Next is to open the “Launchpad” and press on “Combo Cleaner” icon. It is advised to wait until “Combo Cleaner” updates the latest definition for malware detection. Click on “Start Combo Scan” button.

A depth scan of your Mac PC will be executed in order to detect malware. If the Anti-virus scan report says “no threat found” then you can continue with guide further. On the other hand, it is recommended to delete the detected malware infection before continuing.

Now the files and folders created by the adware is removed, you have to remove the rogue extensions from the browsers.

Remove secureblogcn.com from Internet Browsers

Delete Doubtful and Malicious Extension from Safari

Go to “Menu Bar” and open “Safari” browser. Select “Safari” and then “Preferences”

In the opened “preferences” window, select “Extensions” that you have recently installed. All such extensions should be detected and click the “Uninstall” button next to it. If you are doubtful then you can remove all the extensions from “Safari” browser as none of them are important for smooth functionality of the browser.

In case if you continue facing unwanted webpage redirections or aggressive advertisements bombarding, you can reset the “Safari” browser.

“Reset Safari”

Open the Safari menu and choose “preferences…” from the drop-down menu.

Go to the “Extension” tab and set the extension slider to “Off” position. This disables all the installed extensions in the Safari browser

Next step is to check the homepage. Go to “Preferences…” option and choose “General” tab. Change the homepage to your preferred URL.

Also check the default search-engine provider settings. Go to “Preferences…” window and select the “Search” tab and select the search-engine provider that you want such as “Google”.

Next is to clear the Safari browser Cache- Go to “Preferences…” window and select “Advanced” tab and click on “Show develop menu in the menu bar.“

Go to “Develop” menu and select “Empty Caches”.

Remove website data and browsing history. Go to “Safari” menu and select “Clear History and Website Data”. Choose “all history” and then click on “Clear History”.

Remove Unwanted and Malicious Plug-ins from Mozilla Firefox

Delete secureblogcn.com add-ons from Mozilla Firefox

Open the Firefox Mozilla browser. Click on the “Open Menu” present in the top right corner of the screen. From the newly opened menu, choose “Add-ons”.

Go to “Extension” option and detect all the latest installed add-ons. Select each of the suspicious add-ons and click on “Remove” button next to them.

In case if you want to “reset” the Mozilla Firefox browser then follow the steps that has been mentioned below.

Reset Mozilla Firefox Settings

Open the Firefox Mozilla browser and click on “Firefox” button situated at the top left corner of the screen.

In the new menu, go to “Help” sub-menu and choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the “Troubleshooting Information” page, click on “Reset Firefox” button.

Confirm that you want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to default by pressing on “Reset Firefox” option

The browser will get restarted and the settings changes to factory default

Delete Unwanted and Malicious Extensions from Google Chrome

Open the chrome browser and click on “Chrome menu”. From the drop down option, choose “More Tools” and then “Extensions”.

In the “Extensions” option, search for all the recently installed add-ons and extensions. Select them and choose “Trash” button. Any third-party extension is not important for the smooth functionality of the browser.

Reset Google Chrome Settings

Open the browser and click on three line bar at the top right side corner of the window.

Go to the bottom of the newly opened window and select “Show advanced settings”.

In the newly opened window, scroll down to the bottom and choose “Reset browser settings”

Click on the “Reset” button on the opened “Reset browser settings” window

Restart the browser and the changes you get will be applied

The above mentioned manual process should be executed as it is mentioned. It is a cumbersome process and requires a lot of technical expertise. And hence it is advised for technical experts only. To be sure that your PC is free from malware, it is better that you scan the work-station with a powerful anti-malware tool. The automatic malware removal application is preferred because it doesn’t requires any additional technical skills and expertise.

Download the application and execute it on the PC to begin the depth scanning. Once the scanning gets completed, it shows the list of all the files related to secureblogcn.com. You can select such harmful files and folders and remove them immediately.