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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.

Download the iMyMac PowerMyMac and have it installed and launched on your Mac device. Then on the main interface of the program, you will be able to notice that the system. Sometimes, you may want to remove Avast from your computer when you still can’t install an app or driver after trying the above ways. Here is how to uninstall Avast Antivirus in Windows 10/8/7. Step 1: Go to Control Panel Programs Programs and Features. Step 2: Right-click on Avast Free Antivirus and choose Uninstall to remove it.

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)

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After a restart, there is no trace of 'Avast Cleanup' and is not started anymore.

sudo launchctl list|grep Avast

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This procedure is usefull for any undeletable program. But always do a 'find', as described above, first!


Message was edited by: Paulus_2

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Posted on Sep 28, 2018 3:33 AM

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Anti-virus programmes cannot be deleted successfully just by dragging the app to the trash and emptying it. Apps like these spread files throughout your Mac and need to be uninstalled thoroughly. The only way to do this is to refer to the developers of such apps and use their uninstall instructions. The next thing you should know it is not recommended to run any anti-virus software on your Mac, there are no viruses that affect the Mac OS, anti-virus apps run in the background using up resources and often flag up files as a problem when in fact they are vital to the running of your Mac. The same can be said of apps that claim to clean and optimise your Mac, these are not needed, the Mac looks after itself pretty well. If you want to keep a handle on malware/ adware install Malwarebytes, there is a free version.

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