ProgressElemnt

ProgressElemnt, also known as ProgressElemnt Search, is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that seems to only work on macOS devices. This PUP may reach you via a low-quality software bundle, fake installer/updater, or a misleading ad telling you to download a fantastic piece of software. Regardless of how ProgressElemnt ended up on your system, the consequences of installing it are always the same. You will not receive access to any valuable or entertaining features and, instead, ProgressElemnt will modify your Web browser's behavior in a bad way by promoting a search engine the PUP is affiliated with.

ProgressElemnt's authors' goal is to bring more traffic to a 3rd-party search engine by using software, which reconfigures Web browsers to use the site in question as their default search engine or new tab page. More traffic means more ad revenue, and this is exactly the primary goal of ProgressElemnt's developers.

Needless to say, ProgressElemnt's intrusive behavior should not be tolerated, and you should take the necessary actions to remove this PUP. The best way to deal with its removal is to run an up-to-date macOS security tool, which will help identify and eradicate all of ProgressElemnt's components.