If you need any help, let me know, or take it to your nearest Apple Store to talk to a Genius, they can help you out. Make sure you go to to make a reservation! That should be it! Now your computer is completely free of that garbage! Go to the ' Go to Folder' again and input this ' /Library/LaunchDaemons' and delete 'com.anchorfree.'.Click ' Go to folder' and input this without quotes ' /Library/Application Support'.Click Finder and go to the ' Go' drop-down menu again.Next (and this one gets pretty intense, so stick with me here).Click HotSpot Shield and click the ' -' button in the bottom left.On the right you should see a small square picture and then ' Login Items'.Click the Apple in the top left and go to System Preferences.But, for good measure, lets make sure everything's gone. Log out of your user account and log back in.Drag that to the trash (it may prompt you for an administrator password. You should see ' _ist' or something to that effect.Click Finder hold the Option key and click Go (in the top taskbar) then Library (library only shows if you hold option).I was searching for a good VPN and found hotspot shield and, as we now know, it's garbage. Unsure if you're still having the issue but I thought I'd let you know what I've done.

I'd appreciate in-depth help from someone at Apple, since this is clearly a common problem on the forums. I've found advice online to start trawling for kext files, but I don't want to go messing with stuff at the kernel level without knowing exactly what I'm doing. I know this because I am still getting their banner ads in my browser, which tell me they won't go away until I give them money. This will not get rid of it, in spite of the fact that their website says it uninstalls it completely. This will stop it, so now you can move Hotspot Shield to the trash. Then click the X button above the list of processes. To stop it running, go to your applications folder, and start the Activity Monitor.įind Hotspot Shield in the list of running processes, and click on it. This is why they make it incredibly difficult to get rid of, and outright lie on their website about to uninstall it. The company uses it to mine data for Anchor Free, their ad data company. Hotspot shield is scam spyware, and Apple should do something about it.

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