The IT Nerd

For years, you never had to worry about viruses and adware if you run a Mac. Those days are over. Now you have to have protection. There’s a variety of options out there and one of them is an application called AdwareMedic. It’s an on demand scanner for Mac users to make sure that you are not infected by adware.

The program is extremely simple to use.

1. Download it and drag the program to your Applications folder
2. Run it and it will connect to a server to download the latest signatures used to detect adware.
3. Click the “Scan For Adware” button.

Now one of two things will happen at this point. It will either give you the all clear, or it will find adware. If you’re in the latter camp, it will try to remove it. If AdwareMedic doesn’t remove it, it includes the ability to take a system snapshot that can help find possible sources for the problem. This both helps you get rid of the adware and helps others by improving the app. Now to be clear, this is an on demand scanner. In other words, you have to run it to find adware. It will not proactively protect you. That will be fine for most users as you should be running some other type of protection.

I tested it and found nothing amiss which is a good thing. So as far as I am concerned, this is a program that is worth having around. It’s donationware and I recommend it if you have to wonder if you’re infected with adware.

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