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Receiver Helper on Mac
Receiver Helper on Mac is unwanted software designed to earn money through the display of paid adverts and through redirecting users to sites that need to draw more traffic. The Receiver Helper on Mac artificially boosts the traffic to said sites by making them your homepage/new-tab page.
Oftentimes users would unknowingly keep browser hijackers in their computers for months or even years, especially if the hijacker isn’t being too intrusive. However, in other cases, the number of displayed ads and the frequency of the page-redirects could become rather unbearable and even make using the browser normally almost impossible. If this particular hijacker is currently in your Mac and it is bothering you with its constant advertising activities, it’s best if you check the guide below, where you can learn exactly how you can remove this software from your computer. Uninstalling a browser hijacker is typically not a particularly easy task as these apps are designed to stick to the browser and be as difficult to remove as possible. However, with the help of our instructions and the anti-malware tool recommended within them, you should have no problem eliminating everything that this unwanted app may have installed in your Mac.
Receiver Helper Will Damage Your Computer
Receiver Helper will damage your computer is a type of software that belongs to the Mac browser hijacker category because of its ability to take over Mac browsers and introduce some settings changes to them. ReceiverHelper will damage your computer is focused on showing ads that earn Pay-Per-Click revenue.
In most cases, this will be more of an annoyance than anything more serious. As we said earlier in this post, the hijacker apps themselves rarely have the ability to cause harm to the computer. The problem is that there isn’t much control over the sources of the ads and the page-redirects generated by the majority of hijackers. As we already pointed out, if you have an app like this in your system, the risk of getting attacked by a dangerous virus such as a Trojan, a Spyware, or a Ransomware is significantly increased. Because of this, the uninstallation of the browser-hijacking app is almost always the correct response.
The Receiver Helper Malware
ReceiverHelper is a form of browser hijacking malware designed to get installed inside popular Mac browsers in order to show paid ads in them. The ReceiverHelper malware tampers with the settings of the affected browser in order to make its ads-generation more effective.
Receiver Helper is regarded as an undesirable program by most users and security experts because of the adverts it shows in the main browser. The ads generated by Receiver Helper can both be very obstructive and may also sometimes redirect to sites with unsafe content. The good news if you have this app is that it will probably not harm your Mac, at least not directly. However, this type of software usually shows adverts that could be coming from all kinds of sources. In some cases, the commercial may redirect you to an actual online store with good offers on them. However, it is also possible that you land on sites that try to persuade you into downloading and even paying for fake or low-quality software, not to mention that you may even end up getting redirected to sites with Ransomware, Worms, or Trojans in them. This is why it is not advisable to keep this sort of apps in your computer.
Receiver Helper is an unwanted program both because its constant ad-generation can be very irritating and also because some of its commercials may be unsafe. Receiver Helper is typically found in file-bundles where it is added as a bonus feature to some other program’s installer. This distribution method is what allows apps like to get installed on so many computers. Receiver Helper is a hijacker that will get installed in your browser without your knowledge and automatically start to make changes in it. The homepage and the toolbar are some of the elements Receiver Helper will probably modify in your browser to spam you with ads.
What is Receiver Helper?
Receiver Helper is a page-redirecting app of the browser hijacker family that will infect your Mac browser and artificially draw traffic to certain sites. Receiver Helper does that by making those sites’ URLs the new address of your homepage and by automatically redirecting you to them.
If you don’t want to face such software again, we advise you to first use the next guide to uninstall Receiver Helper and then remember to always check the installers of new programs for added components that you may not want to get installed in your Mac.
SUMMARY:
| Name | Receiver Helper |
| Type | Browser Hijacker |
| Detection Tool | We tested that SpyHunter successfully removes parasite*, and we recommend downloading it. Manual removal may take hours, it can harm your system if you re not careful, and parasite may reinstall itself at the end if you don't delete its core files. |
*Source of claim SH can remove it.
How to get rid of Receiver Helper on Mac
The following instructions will allow you to remove “Receiver Helper will damage your computer” in two ways:
- The manual instructions will allow you to remove it on your own by downloading 2 software suites which will show you the folders the threat is located in. Installing, scanning, and deleting everything will require 1-2 hours of your time, depending on your speed and the threat itself.
Note: If Receiver Helper has an in-built ability to restore itself on a restart, the manual steps will not prevent that. We recommend the automatic removal. - Download SpyHunter for Mac (one of the apps used in the manual instructions), scan with it, and if you decide to use the program, it will likely require about 15-20 minutes. This, however, requires an active subscription for SpyHunter, which means either to use the trial version or purchase the software.
Removal instructions:
1. Download EtreCheck from the Appstore and scan for any Receiver Helper unsigned files. Delete them. (You can skip this step altogether and download and scan with Spyhunter instead if you don’t want to double-check things).
2. Download and install Spyhunter for Mac. Scan for any malicious files.
3. The app will show you which files are infected. Either use SpyHunter to delete them for you (the automatic removal) or do it manually, which means tracking down each detected location by yourself and deleting the file.
4. In most cases start with /private/var/root/Library/Application Support/ReceiverHelper/Receiver Helper
5. In Finder press Shift+Command+G to open the Find window.
6. Search for the /var directory. Then proceed and look for the /root folder inside.
7. It will most likely be locked and you will need additional permissions to meddle with it.
8. Press command+I and scroll to sharing and permissions. Add your user name to permissions.
9. Now you should be able to access the /root folder and proceed and locate the /Library folder inside it. Proceed to do the same until you are inside the /Application Support folder.
10. It is possible that the folder you look for is hidden, if that is the case use command+shift+. to locate and find the file you want to delete.
11. Delete the Receiver Helper file.
12. If none of this helps, try the steps in this guide.
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