Comments on: How to remove Weknow

By: pmask

pmask — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:17:15 +0000

Use the command line to delete / modify the affected policies. You do this by opening up “Terminal” and copy and paste each of the following entries below. I did each one at a time. I copy and pasted the first line and then hit enter and then went to the next until I had finished all 6 below:

defaults write com.google.Chrome HomepageIsNewTabPage -bool false
defaults write com.google.Chrome NewTabPageLocation -string “https://www.google.com/”
defaults write com.google.Chrome HomepageLocation -string “https://www.google.com/”
defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL
defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL
defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderName

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:15:27 +0000

Really nice job on this. Really nice!

By: Avery White

Avery White — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 07:42:22 +0000

In reply to Bill Goodwin. Where is the link? Also in step 2 what lines are you pasting into the terminal? Thank You.

By: Bill Goodwin

Bill Goodwin — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 00:27:09 +0000

I kept trying the steps here and everywhere I could find them and while I was certain that I had removed the local adware/malware my Chrome browser STILL would default to WeKnow and every time I opened Chrome it added another reference to WeKnow in my search engine list. One of which was always dark bold font and could not be removed or successfully edited.

Ultimately, I found a reference (link below if you want to read the thread, but I’ve put the steps here to make it easy) to the fact that the malware makes changes to your Chrome policies (you can see them by typing chrome://policy into your chrome browser). You can fix the problem by doing the following:

1) Open your Terminal application (easy way is type “Terminal” into your spotlight search and hit return, OR open your Applications folder, open the Utilities folder in that folder an double click the “Terminal” application in that folder.

2) Copy and paste each of these lines into the terminal application window at the prompt one at a time hitting return after you paste the line in.

3) Restart your computer and open Chrome.

4) Smile and have a drink.