[google-chrome] Google Chrome: This setting is enforced by your administrator

(MacOS) I got this issue after getting some malware that was forcing me to use WeKnow as a search engine. To fix this on MacOs I followed these steps

  1. Go to System Preferences, then check if there's an icon named Profiles.

  2. Remove AdminPrefs profile

  3. Change default search engine settings, Restart Chrome

The above partially helped (I still had WeKnow as my home page). After that I followed these steps:

  1. Type chrome://policy/ to see the policies. You cannot change them there

  2. Copy paste this into your terminal

defaults write com.google.Chrome HomepageIsNewTabPage -bool false

defaults write com.google.Chrome NewTabPageLocation -string "https://www.google.com/"

defaults write com.google.Chrome HomepageLocation -string "https://www.google.com/"

defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL

defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL

defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderName

I've also ran a scan of my system with Avast antivirus that has detected some malware

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