{"id":1832,"date":"2020-01-22T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/?page_id=1832"},"modified":"2020-01-22T12:18:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:18:17","slug":"how-to-remove-searchmine-and-mycomponent-virus-in-chrome-in-mac","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/technical-posts\/mac-os-x-tidbits\/how-to-remove-searchmine-and-mycomponent-virus-in-chrome-in-mac","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove SearchMine and MyComponent Virus in Chrome in Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Here are the steps to follow that should resolve this issue:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>Save these steps somewhere safe and close Chrome.<\/li>\n<li>Click the &#8220;Preferences&#8221; icon in your Mac&#8217;s menu bar and select &#8220;Profiles&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Select all &#8220;AdminPrefs&#8221; profile(s) and delete it\/them by clicking the minus (-) icon at the bottom.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>\n<div>Once you&#8217;ve removed the unwanted &#8220;adminprefs&#8221; profile(s), you should be able to follow these steps:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the\u00a0Terminal app\u00a0(Go &gt; Utilities &gt; Terminal or press Command+Space and search Terminal)<\/li>\n<li>Enter the commands below and hit the Enter key after each one:\n<ul>\n<li>defaults write com.google.Chrome HomepageIsNewTabPage -bool false<\/li>\n<li>defaults write com.google.Chrome NewTabPageLocation -string &#8220;https:\/\/www.google.com\/&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>defaults write com.google.Chrome HomepageLocation -string &#8220;https:\/\/www.google.com\/&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL<\/li>\n<li>defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL<\/li>\n<li>defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderName<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>Now restart Chrome and the issue should be resolved. If not,\u00a0you may need to restart your Mac.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=How+to+Remove+SearchMine+and+MyComponent+Virus+in+Chrome+in+Mac\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/technical-posts\/mac-os-x-tidbits\/how-to-remove-searchmine-and-mycomponent-virus-in-chrome-in-mac\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"twttr_followme\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shiranjit\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-size=\"default\"  data-show-screen-name=\"false\"  target=\"_blank\">Follow me<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the steps to follow that should resolve this issue: Save these steps somewhere safe and close Chrome. Click the &#8220;Preferences&#8221; icon in your Mac&#8217;s menu bar and select &#8220;Profiles&#8221;. Select all &#8220;AdminPrefs&#8221; profile(s) and delete it\/them by clicking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/technical-posts\/mac-os-x-tidbits\/how-to-remove-searchmine-and-mycomponent-virus-in-chrome-in-mac\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1832","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1832\/revisions\/1833"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}