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. 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. 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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