To remove it, select the Avast entry, then press the Uninstall button. If you have Revo Uninstaller Free installed, you can uninstall Avast by finding the entry in the main Revo window once the software has finished searching your PC.While a paid option exists, Revo Uninstaller Free should be able to search for and remove all Avast files and entries from your PC.
If this doesn’t work (or you just don’t trust Avast at this stage), then there are third-party alternatives you can try instead.įor instance, you can remove Windows software using tools like Revo Uninstaller, which will search for and clean up Avast files from your PC. This means you can feel safe in knowing that, even if you can’t uninstall Avast using Windows Settings, you should be safe to use the Avast uninstall utility to remove it instead. While it’s not unfair to have privacy concerns about Avast, it still remains a sizable company in the PC security market, with its software regularly tested by third-party researchers. I am disgusted.Using Third-Party Software Removal Tools to Remove Avast Is that another malicious app? It seems to me likely that the whole purpose of this Avant app, aside from whatever malicious thing it may be doing to my system, is also aimed at forcing this other app upon us. This is an advert! Which tries to convince you to download CleanMyMac. Googling 'how to delete avast mac' returns this as the top hit: This makes me think someone put a lot of effort into forcing this onto me. [IMG alt="Name: Screenshot at 00.42.10 copy.jpg Here's a pic of the results from EasyFind, searching 'avant': But AppCleaner said shows it with a padlock symbol, and doesn't let me delete it! Then, I dragged that onto AppCleaner, to try to delete it like that. But, that did not let me! 'Move to trash' does nothing, and even 'Destroy' does nothing! So, since Finder cannot find any files named 'avast', I located them using EasyFind, and made it show one file in Finder - 'Avast', in Library/StagedExtensions/Applications. So I tried using EasyFind to delete all files with Avast in the name. There were various processes running under the name 'Avast'. However, after doing that, I could still see that it was running things, by using Activity Monitor. So I used the app 'AppCleaner' to try to uninstall it. I also read on the net that the install function on it may not uninstall it completely - someone else apparently had a similar issue. Dive in, using your smartphone or tablet, and know that weve got you covered. Double-click your ESET product to open the Setup Wizard. It had an uninstall function but that asked me for my password, and since I do not trust it and it abused me by installing itself without my knowledge, I did not want to give it my password. Mobile Security & Antivirus protection from Malware, ransomware & WiFi attacks Avast Antivirus Scan & Remove Virus, Cleaner. I did not voluntarily install it - it appears to have made its way onto my system somehow mysteriously last month, from the date I could see of when it was created on my system. Today suddenly an app called 'Avast' turned itself on.
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