avast-secureline-installed-*.log: what is this?

Avast Mac Security
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I just found these on my mac:

pwd

/tmp

ls -l

-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 3 22:49 avast-store-secureline-installed-1472914153-37367.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 4 00:25 avast-store-secureline-installed-1472919913-38090.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 4 09:11 avast-store-secureline-installed-1472951493-38164.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 4 10:43 avast-store-secureline-installed-1472957008-38690.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 4 22:39 avast-store-secureline-installed-1472999985-38738.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 00:58 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473008312-39801.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 02:46 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473014796-39863.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 04:34 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473021281-39948.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 05:28 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473024536-40008.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 07:17 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473031021-40060.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 07:22 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473031335-40114.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 08:59 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473037140-40196.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 09:32 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473039152-41113.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 12:51 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473051091-45432.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 13:07 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473052059-45955.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 16:12 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473063132-50089.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 17:25 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473067540-50205.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 17:30 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473067824-50257.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 19:48 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473076080-51896.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 22:00 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473084031-51930.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 22:01 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473084064-51991.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 5 22:02 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473084170-52070.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 6 00:12 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473091924-53490.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 6 12:13 avast-store-secureline-installed-1473135188-53546.log

WTF? I don’t think I have secureline installed. At least I never asked Avast to.

Why is that log file (same contents) being added every few hours?

What is going on here?

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Worse. AVAST keeps installing other things on my MAC w/o my approval:

-rw-r–r-- 1 mathias wheel 3152 Sep 6 20:35 avast-store-aos-installed-1473165310-65319.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 mathias wheel 3152 Sep 6 20:40 avast-store-aos-installed-1473165650-65536.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 mathias wheel 3152 Sep 6 20:44 avast-store-aos-installed-1473165840-65706.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 mathias wheel 3152 Sep 6 20:45 avast-store-aos-installed-1473165917-65835.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 3 22:49 avast-store-secureline-installed-1472914153-37367.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 681 Sep 4 00:25 avast-store-secureline-installed-1472919913-38090.log

How do I get RID of all this?

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Hi,
Those are just debug logs for tracing install/uninstall problems of the corresponding components.
Unfortunately, those log files are at the moment also created when the GUI only checks, whether
this component is installed or not (when opening the “Store” tab in the GUI). If you open any of this files,
you can see what exactly was going on - the content is a human readable shell script debug output.

You can safely delete all those files or simply ignore them. We will fix the program to create them only
on real install/uninstall events in the next program update.