Right-click Avast SecureLine, then select Uninstall from the drop-down menu. If prompted for permission by the User Account Control dialog, click Yes. When the Avast Cleanup Premium setup appears, select Uninstall. Click Uninstall to confirm uninstallation. How to Delete Avast from Mac. To delete Avast from Mac, follow the steps below: 1. Click Avast from the menu bar Uninstall Avast Security. This will open a new window here, click Uninstall. When asked to enter username and password. This way, you can altogether remove Avast from Mac.
Uninstall our software using avastclear. Sometimes it's not possible to uninstall Avast the standard way - using the ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS in control panel. In this case, you can use our uninstallation utility avastclear. Download avastclear.exe avastclear.exe on your desktop; Start Windows in Safe Mode; Open (execute) the uninstall utility. Mac Cleanup Pro is not Apple. No Anti-Virus software or so-called “cleaning” apps are needed or recommended for Mac OS. They can conflict with Mac's own built-in security. At best they will slow your Mac by using unnecessary resources and at worst will bork your entire system. If you think you have installed malware run Malwarebytes.
I once installed Avast software (anti malware, cleanup, security). Several corresponding programs were installed. Due to continuously asking to install the full program suite, I decided to uninstall the Avast software. Stupid move of Avast, because their free program never asked to install the full Avast suite.
So I used their Avast Uninstall.app to remove the programs.
After a restart there was a leftover: 'Avast Cleanup'.
This app is a daemon process and it is not possible to trash it, because MacOs reports that it is 'open'.
You can show that it is running in the Activity Monitor. And a force quit does not work.
Command-Option-Escape shows the current apps and 'Avast Cleanup' is not displayed. So 'Avast Cleanup' cannot be closed or quit.
The only way to get rid of undeletable apps is to use Terminal and use a couple of shell commands.
The shell commands find and delete the directories and their contents.
Be very carefull, because you have to use root permission to execute them!
Any executed mistype results in a corrupt OS!
Unexperienced shell users should study shell commands.
Find the directories with the application software and data to delete:
sudo will ask for the administrator password of the Mac.
sudo find / -iname '*Avast*' -print | grep -v denied
This command shows all the directories in which Avast software resides.
On my Mac the leftover Avast Cleanup resides in the directory /Applications/AvastCleanup.app
This directory contains sub-directories that has to be deleted also.
The command rm to delete the application software and data:
sudo rm -rf /Applications/AvastCleanup.app/
The -rf keys: -r 'recursive' -f 'force' (suppress confirmation messages)
After a restart, there is no trace of 'Avast Cleanup' and is not started anymore.
sudo launchctl list|grep Avast
This procedure is usefull for any undeletable program. But always do a 'find', as described above, first!
Message was edited by: Paulus_2
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), null
Posted on Sep 28, 2018 3:33 AM
I once installed Avast software (anti malware, cleanup, security). Several corresponding programs were installed. Due to continuously asking to install the full program suite, I decided to uninstall the Avast software. Stupid move of Avast, because their free program never asked to install the full Avast suite.
So I used their Avast Uninstall.app to remove the programs.
After a restart there was a leftover: 'Avast Cleanup'.
This app is a daemon process and it is not possible to trash it, because MacOs reports that it is 'open'.
You can show that it is running in the Activity Monitor. And a force quit does not work.
Command-Option-Escape shows the current apps and 'Avast Cleanup' is not displayed. So 'Avast Cleanup' cannot be closed or quit.
The only way to get rid of undeletable apps is to use Terminal and use a couple of shell commands.
The shell commands find and delete the directories and their contents.
Be very carefull, because you have to use root permission to execute them!
![Can Can](/uploads/1/1/7/8/117843333/806962579.png)
Any executed mistype results in a corrupt OS!
Unexperienced shell users should study shell commands.
Find the directories with the application software and data to delete:
sudo will ask for the administrator password of the Mac.
sudo find / -iname '*Avast*' -print | grep -v denied
This command shows all the directories in which Avast software resides.
On my Mac the leftover Avast Cleanup resides in the directory /Applications/AvastCleanup.app
This directory contains sub-directories that has to be deleted also.
The command rm to delete the application software and data:
sudo rm -rf /Applications/AvastCleanup.app/
The -rf keys: -r 'recursive' -f 'force' (suppress confirmation messages)
After a restart, there is no trace of 'Avast Cleanup' and is not started anymore.
sudo launchctl list|grep Avast
![Uninstall Avast Cleanup Pro Mac Uninstall Avast Cleanup Pro Mac](/uploads/1/1/7/8/117843333/959408541.png)
This procedure is usefull for any undeletable program. But always do a 'find', as described above, first!
How To Delete Avast Mac
Message was edited by: Paulus_2
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), null
Delete Avast From Mac
Posted on Sep 28, 2018 3:33 AM