TheMalwarebytes research team has determined that ilivid is a PUP bundle installer. These so-called "bundles" install various types of potentially unwanted programs on your computer, usually including toolbars, hijackers and adware.
As you can see below the full version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware would have protected you against the ilivid bundle. It would have warned you before the bundler could install the potentially unwanted programs, giving you a chance to stop it before it became too late.
I consider iLivid malware - it takes over websites and automatically downloads unless you kill the browser window. It seems to like sites where you're expecting a download and exploits your expectation that you're getting the download you want rather than iLivid.
You will see iLivid as a device. If you try to drag it to trash it will tell you it's in use. Go to the toolbar at the top of your desktop and you probably have an iLivid symbol. Click on it and choose exit.
You still can't drag the iLivid "device" icon to trash because it will still tell you it's in use by TLC (has an orange traffic cone symbol). You may see the little orange cone in your dock area, so you turn it off. The cone vanishes but you still can't trash iLivid.
Inside the main Application folder you will *not* see either iLivid nor TLC icons. You *will* see a sub-folder called 'applications' with a weird symbol in front of the 'A' in applications. If you click on that SUB-folder it will simply mirror the contents of your main Application folder endlessly. That's where the malware is hiding.
Kill that "applications" sub-folder inside your main Applications folder. Just drag it to trash. My main Applications folder in Finder was not affected by this move. I still have all my real and wanted Applications.
The icon for this program on my Macbook is located on my desktop, Its not in my toolbar, it may have been at some point, at the top of my downloads but it has been long since buried (didn't notice it until I tried to free up some space and wouldn't let me delete).
If I right-click there is no "exit" available, only "open" and "eject" meaning it was never actually opened. I'm afraid of what happens if I click the "eject" option. It has never been officially opened, by me- so does that mean its just waiting to be installed? This is probably the dumbest question in the world but I'm pretty much tech illiterate so bare with me here.
I went into finder and looked for the sub folder, and couldn't find one in applications. The icon itself for applications under places, is two pencils spelling an 'A' is that the legitimate icon? or the one your talking about? I honestly can't remember (again, bare with me). I went through all the applications in it piece by piece but there is no sub folder of any kind. Also went into macintosh HD and looked through the applications folder (that looks like a folder) there and it is the same. If this is the decoy, where can I find my actual applications? how do I know what is what? because there is a pretty good chance I'm going to delete all my applications.
ilivid is shown as its own entity under 'devices' just below Macintosh HD. I right clicked that, but got the same options as my desktop button again. Next to its icon there is this ever present "eject" symbol, that never disappears like it wants you to try that. What would happen if I dragged that icon out of my devices and into the trash? would that solve the problem? (Am I right thinking that it was downloaded, but its contents were never officially installed? I still can't delete the thing)
If you haven't opened the icon on your desktop, drag it to trash and then empty trash, but since you have an "eject" option it may be that it launched itself. In any case, start by dragging to trash then tell us what happened.
Alright, tried dragging the icon from the desktop to the trash and as soon as I started to drag it down, the the trash bin turns into an 'eject' button itself, (standard line with an arrow facing upward). You see that stupid symbol pretty much everywhere this thing accompanies- like they really want you to press that.
I moved to my finder, and tried to drag the program from devices- that didn't turn my trash into an eject button this time, but once dropped, it goes right back to its spot below my HD drive. The trashbin didn't even animate when I hovered over it, like its immune to deletion.
Okay, I just got rid of this annoying ilivid programm. Just so you don't freak out, it's nothing dangerous. Anyway, what you need to do is go to Finder>MacintoshHD>Library>Internet Plugins, delete the beast and empty the trash ? Good luck!
Although I've never actually gotten my hands on a copy of this adware, due to it being primarily distributed through piracy sites and the accompanying unwillingness of people to share what they've been up to on those sites, iLivid seems to be related to the DownLite adware. However, I haven't heard of any internet plugins being used by DownLite, so I'd be interested to hear what you found. Here's a link to the instructions I've pieced together:
I unwillingly downloaded conduit and ilivid into my MacBook Pro 13" Retina OS Mavericks, this is my first time EVER to have a malware problem on any of my macs, i am desperate, sad and depressed. pop up ads keep showing up everything second on chrome, safari or mozilla and its driving me insane, i've managed to erase conduit, also installed AdBlock and it has helped but it has slowed down my web browsing and overall working speed.
Since iLivid is not a program but (external meaning internet)server based adware, you cannot remove it from your Mac. But: you can block it. I did this doing following steps with succes: iLivid is gone :-).
I regretfully installed iLivid and have had the problem many others have experienced with the irritating searchqu. I have followed the many helpful threads on Firefox Help and through disabling add-ons, using add/remove programs etc, I have manged to just about get rid of it. One annoying aspect remains. On my Firefox page, next to the usual web address field, is another search box that is pre-filled with 'iLivid Web Search'.
this worked for me. On the left hand side of the box using the ilivid search there's a small magnifying glass with a drop down arrow. Hit it and you'll see a list of search engines. Go to 'manage search engines' at the bottom, select 'ilivid' and then select 'delete'. Select the search engine you want to use and if it's not already at the top, select 'move up'. Mine's now back to Google.
Hi, @strugglingauthor, my name is John and i'm a member of the Searchqu support team. I see that your issue has been solved already, please let us know if there is something else we can assist with :)
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