com.avast.uninstall trying to run every 10 seconds after deleted Avast Free

Hello,

I deleted Avast Free a while ago and just noticed in my console log that a rogue process is running over and over. I’m on 10.6.8. Here is a sample of the log.

03/07/2015 21:29:34 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] (com.avast.update-agent) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
03/07/2015 21:29:34 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.avast.uninstall[16132]) posix_spawn(“/Library/Application Support/Avast/hub/autouninstall.sh”, …): No such file or directory
03/07/2015 21:29:34 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.avast.uninstall[16132]) Exited with exit code: 1
03/07/2015 21:29:34 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.avast.uninstall) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
03/07/2015 21:29:44 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] (com.avast.update-agent[16138]) posix_spawn(“/Library/Application Support/Avast/components/update/com.avast.update-agent”, …): No such file or directory
03/07/2015 21:29:44 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] (com.avast.update-agent[16138]) Exited with exit code: 1
03/07/2015 21:29:44 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.avast.uninstall[16139]) posix_spawn(“/Library/Application Support/Avast/hub/autouninstall.sh”, …): No such file or directory
03/07/2015 21:29:44 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.avast.uninstall[16139]) Exited with exit code: 1
03/07/2015 21:29:44 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.avast.uninstall) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
03/07/2015 21:29:54 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] (com.avast.update-agent[16140]) posix_spawn(“/Library/Application Support/Avast/components/update/com.avast.update-agent”, …): No such file or directory
03/07/2015 21:29:54 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] (com.avast.update-agent[16140]) Exited with exit code: 1
03/07/2015 21:29:54 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[119] (com.avast.update-agent) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
03/07/2015 21:29:54 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.avast.uninstall[16141]) posix_spawn(“/Library/Application Support/Avast/hub/autouninstall.sh”, …): No such file or directory
03/07/2015 21:29:54 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.avast.uninstall[16141]) Exited with exit code: 1
03/07/2015 21:29:54 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.avast.uninstall) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

It repeats this over and over. Could anyone please assist? How do I stop this?

Best,

Noon123

Because that’s not how you uninstall Avast, there’s a top menu item when running avast that says ‘Uninstall Avast’. You’ll have to reinstall it again and use the proper method, that’s the easiest way.