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Hi!

I have just downloaded and installed ‘Avast Free Mac Security’, but I don’t see a process in the activity monitor, except ‘com.avast.helper’ and ‘com.avast.update-agent’. Isn’t an anti virus software a process that runs in the background? Is avast actually running?

thanks!

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You can always test it with the EICAR testfile.

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Yes it runs in the background. You can use the EICAR test file as eddy says to test it.

Also you can verify the WebShield is running by visiting a HTTPS (Secure) website and looking at the certificate in use, it will show Avast as the certificate issuer.

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Most probably it is running correctly but you did not display the “system” processes, only the user ones. If you enable displaying of processes of all users, you will see 4 more Avast “system” processes (com.avast daemon, com.avast.service, com.avast.fileshield and com.avast.proxy) that belong to the shields and the scan engine.