Fully Deleting Prior Installation

Avast Mac Security
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I had problems with Avast Security after a High Sierra update so I tried to delete and reinstall. I did not Uninstall properly and now there are traces of a prior installation that needs to be deleted. I ran Terminal and got these messages:

Last login: Sat Sep 29 12:23:00 on console
Richards-Mac-mini:~ richard$ ls -la /Library/Application\ Support/Avast/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 Sep 24 23:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 root admin 918 Feb 9 2018 …
drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 578 Sep 24 23:41 config
-rw-r–r-- 1 root wheel 1 Sep 15 2017 display-version.tag
drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 408 Sep 24 23:41 run
drwx------ 8 root wheel 272 Sep 24 23:36 submit-data
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Sep 24 14:01 update-data
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Sep 24 23:40 vps9
Richards-Mac-mini:~ richard$ ls -la /Applications/Avast.app/
ls: /Applications/Avast.app/: No such file or directory
Richards-Mac-mini:~ richard$ kextstat | grep avast
Richards-Mac-mini:~ richard$

Can you please help me delete the necessary items so I can reinstall again?

2

Hello Richard,

you are on the right track. I can see you no longer have the UI nor drivers loaded, so it should be enough to just open Terminal.app and run following command:

rm -rf ‘/Library/Application Support/Avast’

You should be able to install Avast again after that.

Best regards,

Jakub

3

Thank you Jakub! I did what you suggested and was able to install again. I appreciate your help!!

Regards,
Richard