I have a hundred systems that I have Avast Pro on, and I noticed with the last software update, they all got GrimeFighter which I do not want on the systems.
Is there a way to disable it? I read through the other threads and I am not going around to each system and doing a uninstall just to get rid of GrimeFighter.
I wish it would have given an option on the update screen like it did for Chrome, however it did not. It just went ahead and installed it. Now, all of my users
are calling my asking me why Avast is asking to optimize their PC. I definitely do not want Avast to optimize anything. I have measures in place to do that.
A custom install would have given the option to untick the Grimefighter module which can still be removed via the change feature which is accessed by clicking uninstall then change on the popup screen.
Do note that Grimfighter is a paid process and would still require a separate download for it to function.
So it’s installed on your personal systems on purpose but is it installed on everyone of your clients ? as like I mentioned it has to be downloaded separately - only the connector module is preinstalled.
If your clients have all downloaded via the connector module then you could send them an email explaining how to remove if they don’t wish to have the feature, it’s a very easy process to remove if unwanted and it doesn’t require a custom install being that avast is already installed " use the change feature"
I’m not exactly sure what kind of environment you work in. I work in a Managed IT environment where the users do not have admin rights. We don’t let them install/uninstall software.
We use systems like GPO, WSUS, and SCCM to deploy things. However, for the Avast when it was originally setup on back in 2012, I did a custom package for everyone that was pushed
out to allow for automatic updates.
The systems I tested it on were not personal systems. They were work systems. When you click on the Pop-up for GrimeFighter, it runs. It does not ask you purchase anything, nor does it ask you to download anything.
As I stated before, we have a volume license for Pro for our business. I am going to have to create a custom PowerShell script to run in GPO to remove all this, and that takes time. Time is money.