Antivirus from a Mac using a few simple steps: - Open Avast! Preferences and disable the Web, File, and Mail shields - Open Avast! Hi, after I uninstalled Cleanup on my PC, those programs that were put to sleep via Cleanup won't start anymore. When I click on their exe file the system says that it can't find the exe file. I tried to uninstall and reinstall it but after installation the problem stays the same. Dec 26, 2019 Step 1. Open Avast Cleanup Pro, then click Avast Cleanup in the menu bar on the top-left of the screen, and select Uninstall Avast Cleanup Pro. Please can someone advise how I uninstall AvastFree from my iMac? There should not be any trick in it. Open the app, go to the top left corner of your screen, and close to the 'apple icon' you will see 'Avast Security' menu. Choose 'Uninstall' from the menu and uninstallation process will start.
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!
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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
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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