Uninstall Avast Free Antivirus Application in Mac OS X – Avast Free Antivirus removal steps from Mac OS X
Want to uninstall Avast Free Antivirus apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall Avast Free Antivirus completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling Avast Free Antivirus application?
Uninstalling Avast Free Antivirus in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the Avast Free Antivirus you simply need to drag & drop the Avast Free Antivirus application bundles to trash, that's it.
STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the Avast Free Antivirus from your machine.
Avast Free Antivirus Bundles – The Application Bundle
Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of Avast Free Antivirus application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. Avast Free Antivirus supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the Avast Free Antivirus Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of Avast Free Antivirus is not that easy, you need to find all the location where Avast Free Antivirus has saved the files.
Some of the location where Avast Free Antivirus would have saved the files are
~/Library/Preferences/[]
~/Library/Application Support/[]
Recommendation
You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall Avast Free Antivirus completely from your Mac machine.
Using Finder the remove the Avast Free Antivirus Application Bundles & Additional Files
To Manually uninstall Avast Free Antivirus & all associated files
- Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the Avast Free Antivirus application process running then quit it, make sure that Avast Free Antivirus processes is not running.
- Start finder to look for the Avast Free Antivirus name.
- Searching "Avast Free Antivirus" vs "Contents"
- Delete all files and folders related to the Avast Free Antivirus app.
- A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.
See how Award Winning Avast Free Antivirus Utility helps you to completely uninstall the application.
Follow these steps to remove Avast Free Antivirus app from your Mac:
- Download a fully-functional trial version of MacKeeper.
- Open the Smart Uninstaller tool and select the application you wish to remove.
- Click Remove to completely uninstall the selected app.
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