avast on Mavericks 10.9

Avast Mac Security
1

I run the avast installer and it jumps right to the end without installing anything. the avast status window then pops up showing everything as red or exclamation point / not found. is there a beta version i can use that’s 10.9 compatible? thanks

2

Hi, I just fixed it by running this from Terminal:
sudo /Applications/avast!.app/Contents/MacOS/install.sh
Hope it works for you too.

3

thanks that worked. the 6/25 program update didn’t seem to fix it. oh well beta right? :slight_smile:

4

the uninstall button does not seem to work. is there another option to uninstall avast?

5

Fix disk permissions?

6

fix disk permissions I have tried 3 times, unfortunately without success

7

Hello,
we are not ready for the Mavericks currently. The following reports look like issue with user authorization. For the future release we plan to redesign significantly avast! installation.

Regarding uninstallation if a menu bar attempt fails, there should work also a drag&drop of avast! application to Trash and reboot, however it hasn’t been tested for a long time and never on 10.9.

Martin

8

Tried the drag and drop without any luck :frowning:
Any other way to uninstall?

9

sudo /Applications/avast!.app/Contents/MacOS/install.sh uninstall
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Avast
rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.avast.*
sudo reboot

Be noted, that normally install.sh is executed with UID!=0, EUID=0 and thus it behaves different than when called with sudo. The root of the installation/uninstallation issue is that the autorization mechanism leaves opened file descriptors and bash crashes on attempt to close one of them.

10

Is there a manual way to register ? It is telling me my avast expires in 2 days, but the registration process hangs :frowning:

11

also is there a public beta of the next avast ? I am assuming you must be working on a mavericks version by now ??

12

Hi,
registration should work. If you are running Mavericks in a virtual machine like me, make sure that WebShield/Scan Secured connetions option is disabled on the host computer.

Regarding your second question, there is no public beta available yet, we are still working on a new installation procedure.