Complete Guide to Removing Viruses, Malware, Adware, and Spyware from Your Mac in 2023

How to remove all viruses, malware, adware, and spyware off of your Mac computer. This is a full deep clean in macOS to help optimize your Mac and make sure it's running at it's peak efficiency. These maintenance steps will also help improve a slow Mac.

UPDATED VERSION FOR 2025: https://youtu.be/oQTtBAU3WeE

Previous Versions Of This Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqO9l1EbiZbvQhk0L0mfocRKPvTanyZAK

0:00 - Intro
0:23 - 1. Disk Utility First Aid
1:06 - 2. Malware Scan
https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/
1:52 - 3. Virus Scan
Only Use ONE Of The Free Options Listed Below:
a) Avast: https://www.avast.com/en-us/mac
b) AVG: https://www.avg.com/en-ww/homepage#mac
c) Avira: https://www.avira.com/en/free-antivirus-mac
d) Sophos: https://home.sophos.com/download-mac-anti-virus
2:58 - 4. Malicious Profile Removal
3:22 - 5. Web Browser Clean
3:26 - Google Chrome
5:10 - Mozilla Firefox
6:26 - Safari
7:13 - 6. Apple Updates
7:54 - 7. Login Items Audit
8:33 - 8. Garbage File Removal
9:37 - 9. Removal of all bad applications and programs
11:40 - 10. Restart your Mac

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you continue to have problems AFTER completing ALL of the steps, I would recommend you back up ALL of your important data, and then do a factory reset as shown here: https://youtu.be/FDRFZYImzPQ

Securely back up your data (unlimited): https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html#af9u36

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