Ok for them, but it's incumbent upon everyone to educate themselves regarding its purpose and its implications for privacy and data security. Security apps from companies other than McAfee might cause a problem with your. And as browsers go, it's not a very good one anyway, which holds true for Macs as well as Windows PCs. I would re-install the product and then use the included uninstaller.
In some cases with AV in particular you have to install and uninstaller, but don't know that to be the case with Avast, per se. Google is the closest thing to a Mac "virus" there is, or has ever been.īrave doesn't do those things. Yes, as above, just deleting the folder isn't a clean uninstall option and generally causes issue with the uninstaller.
In fact, it was one of those updates a while ago that caused Macs to crash and become unbootable, for which the only solution was to reinstall macOS. It also updates itself automatically, meaning a Mac that runs well one day might exhibit the symptoms you describe the next day, even if you changed nothing about it or what you do with it. asked questions about Avast Cleanup on Windows PC, Mac, and Android. It's a pervasive system modification specifically designed to turn your Mac into an information-harvesting and -uploading "bot". It's important to understand Google is not just a browser. One more thing, is Google Chrome to be trusted? I read that the program was imbedding itself deep into hard drives.