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I am unable to completely uninstall the Zoom meeting app from my Mac running macOS Mojave.

I once installed the Zoom meeting app. Then I deleted it from Applications directory. Now, every-time I open a zoom meeting in Google Chrome, the Zoom app gets reinstalled automatically! Terrible...

So I investigated from where and how it has permission to reinstall and I found out they created a hidden folder .zoomus containing ZoomOpener.app and there is a ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin in ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins directory.

Question: I have deleted the following 4 files:

• zoom.us.app from /Applications directory.




• zoomusInstaller.pkg from ~/Downloads directory




• ZoomOpener.app from hidden .zoomus in home dir




• ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin from ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins directory. directory

But it still gets reinstalled. How can I completely uninstall it?

EDIT 2

the support now gave me this script to run: I ran it but it still gets installed again after opening a meeting... this is the worst app i have ever used...

official zoom support drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MP0cNLyJjzPLNrvNDCZv9hRuif091f0c

currently i run this script to uninstall, to no success

#! /bin/bash
echo Cleaning Zoom...
echo Cleaning Application Cached Files...
sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/zoom.us
echo Cleaning Application..

 sudo rm -rf /Applications/zoom.us.app
 sudo rm -rf ~/Applications/zoom.us.app
 sudo kextunload -b zoom.us.ZoomAudioDevice
 sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/ZoomAudioDevice.kext
 &> /dev/null

echo Removed Application...



 sudo rm -rf ~/Downloads/zoomusInstaller.pkg
 sudo rm -rf /Applications/zoom.us.app
 sudo rm -rf ~/Desktop/Zoom
 sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/zoom.us
 sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/us.zoom.xos
 sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin
 sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin
 sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/zoom.us
 sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/zoominstall.log
 sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/ZoomChat.plist
 sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/us.zoom.xos.plist
 sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Saved Application State/us.zoom.xos.savedState
 &> /dev/null

echo Other stuff...

and i kill the process:

ps -eaf | grep -i [z]oom

EDIT 3

i ran all scripts and killed the process, now one day later, I open another meeting via chrome and... again the installer runs. I am furious

Idea #1 - clearing out files

I noticed even after clearing out all the files that matched my find queries.

$ find . -type f |&grep -iE "zoom|zoom.us"

$ find . -type d |&grep -iE "zoom|zoom.us"

You can look at this output to figure out files to delete. This removed most of the Zoom.us cruft:

$ rm -fr ~/Library/Application Support/zoom.us 
 ~/Library/Logs/zoom.us Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin 
 ~/.zoomus/ 
 ~/Library/Logs/zoom* 
 ~/Library/Caches/us.zoom.*

Idea #2 - kill the zoom process

Finally I noticed that there was a Zoom.us app still running:

$ ps -eaf | grep -i [z]oom
 502 42920 1 0 7:49AM ?? 0:00.77 /Users/smingolelli/.zoomus/ZoomOpener.app/Contents/MacOS/ZoomOpener

If I killed this app the behavior stops.

$ kill 42920

Idea #3 - Follow advice regarding Zoom Launcher Plugin

I do not have this plugin installed and have followed my advice from idea #1 & #2. When I access the "Join Test Meeting" link in Chrome I'm greeted with this page:

The bit that I find interesting on that page is this blurb:

Please click Open zoom.us if you see the system dialog.

If you search for that phrase on Google you'll end up on this page titled: Zoom Launcher Plugin.

Zoom Launcher via Launch Application

If you are using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari to
join or host a meeting, you will see a dialog box to launch the Zoom
application. You can click on the Remember my choice and then Launch
Application.

If you look through this page they show how to repair their browser plugin, I suspect you may still have some portion of this running as well, or at least some preferences. You can try following their directions to deal with "issues" related to their plugin. Here's Chrome's but all the popular browsers appear to have this plugin/extension available.

Issues with Zoom launcher plug-in:

On some occasions where the plugins may not be activated, disabled or
may not be correctly installed, or installed correctly but failed to
run. There are several things you can do to fix it: Check if the Zoom
launcher plugin is enabled (re-enable if it was disabled)

Google Chrome:

1. In the address bar, enter chrome://plugins/ or chrome://extensions/ on later versions of Chrome.




2. Where it lists "zoom.us launcher plugin" make sure it is enabled and always allowed.




3. More details on Chrome Plugins

References

• Test link for Zoom.us meeting

Following is a list of files removed when uninstalling Zoom meeting client installed via Homebrew:

/Applications/zoom.us.app
~/Desktop/Zoom
~/Library/Application Support/zoom.us
~/Library/Caches/us.zoom.xos
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin
~/Library/Logs/zoom.us
~/Library/Logs/zoominstall.log
~/Library/Preferences/ZoomChat.plist
~/Library/Preferences/us.zoom.xos.plist
~/Library/Saved Application State/us.zoom.xos.savedState

You can try to go through the mentioned directories and delete the files present to see if that resolves your issue.

Did you try contacting Zoom. I am pretty sure that this is an approach that they adopt so that they don't lose the users.

The same happened with me with Chrome. I had to format my Mac. I never installed Chrome again.