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Title: com.avast.uninstall trying to run every 10 seconds after deleted Avast Free
Post by: REDACTED on July 03, 2015, 10:35:32 PM

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

Title: Re: com.avast.uninstall trying to run every 10 seconds after deleted Avast Free
Post by: specimen9999 on July 04, 2015, 12:42:48 AM

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.