What is 'Your OS High Sierra Is Infected With (3) Viruses!'?Īccording to the 'Your OS High Sierra Is Infected With (3) Viruses!' error, your Mac computer is infected with three viruses (this number can vary). Click on the delete icon on the app that you want to delete. Press and hold the Option key, or click and hold on any apps until the icons start to wiggle. If you don’t see the app that you want to remove on Launchpad, type its name on the search field. Open Launchpad by clicking on it in the Dock or from the Applications folder.
Make sure you download version 3.5.1 or above for. Drag 5KPlayer icon from the Applications folder to AppCleaner, check all items, and confirm uninstalling.
To completely remove and uninstall 5KPlayer on your macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Sierra, High Sierra, macOS 10.13 Mojave, or previous Mac OS X 10.6 to 10.9, I recommend a freeware AppCleaner. App Categosries: Data Backup/Transfer/Recovery.
If you see Uninstall App or App Uninstaller, double-click it, then follow the onscreen instructions.
Do one of the following: If an app is in a folder, open the app’s folder to check for an Uninstaller. You’ll have adware or some other sort of malware very soon and those are intentionally difficult to uninstall.On your Mac, click the Finder icon in the Dock, then click Applications in the Finder sidebar. But other than that you are just asking for trouble.
Which means an occasional install from a big company (Adobe, Microsoft) or a rare instance from a developer with a reputation (Smile, Panic). You should only install non-App Store apps from developers and sources you trust. Apps on Mac don’t really create junk the way that apps on other systems do (or did, years ago).īut if you are installing lots of apps from outside the App Store on a regular basis “just to try” then that is a habit you’ll need to stop. Worrying about them is like worrying about the dirt from your shoes on the mats on the floor of your car - the added weight will hurt your gas mileage, right? A 500 byte preference file is not something you’ll notice on a 500GB drive. If you mean any preference files, then sometimes uninstallers get rid of those for you as well. An uninstaller would not delete those for you as it can’t assume you don’t want those documents. For the most part uninstalling is easy on the Mac, but people expect it to be harder and so feel that there must be more steps.Īs for the “junk the apps left” - what do you mean? If you created documents with the app, then delete those as well. Others have a list of steps provided by the developers, but this should be rare. If you are not talking about App Store apps then you follow the uninstall procedure for that particular app. Are you talking about App Store apps? Then it is easy to uninstall using Launchpad.
You’d lose any files and work you did as well, plus it would be very time-consuming. Restoring to a previous backup is a very extreme measure.