After that give the Mac your information to create a new user, this user will then delete the 'Other.' User and all you have to do is user the new user for a few seconds, log off, sign in to your old user, go to settings, user and groups, press the lock to make changes and then remove the new user you created, close the lock. The 4 Best Mac Antivirus Programs Mac malware removal is a breeze with these antivirus apps. Avast, like other antivirus apps that continually run in the background, can have an impact on your Mac's performance. Why BitDefender Antivirus for Mac is a Top Pick for Mac Users. Mac OS X Speciality level out of ten: 10 Feb 22, 2017 12:24 PM in response to shkarst In response to shkarst If you googled 'stop dandruff by sticking your head in a wood chipper' you could say that gets it done to.
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Just tried Firefox Dev and everything returns invalid certificate issues. One possible cited cause are AV software, so I'd like to suspend Avast and see if it clears up.
Suspend/stop - not 'turn off shields', that doesn't do much - Avast is still on the menu bar and still shows up on pgrep. At the end of the day, I don't really care about live shields anyway - more interested in scanning downloads and the like.
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I guess I could look at system services and turn Avast off there, but is there no way to tell the app to shut down? Unusual to have such a badly behaved app on Macs.
edit: all the launchctl fu I tried to apply didn't work and it even re-appeared after a reboot. I think I'll have to de-install it if I want to truly stop it. Not helping my trust either with a spammy 'your system is wasting x GB storage, do you want to fix it?' popup of theirs.
As far as Avast + Firefox Dev edition goes, looking at Connection is Untrusted, I saw that the user uninstalled and reinstalled to accept the Avast cert.
So... I:
went to regular FF preferences searched for 'certificates' and exported the Avast cert.
went to FF dev version and imported the cert I had just exported. Its trust only needs to identify websites.
FF Dev works now.
Still not sure I will keep Avast around.
Uninstalled, this whole 'can't be paused or disabled' is arrogant and annoying, especially as the main reason for wanting it was on-demand scanning of downloads, not constant running.
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I downloaded avast free antivirus (online version). The installation progress normally upto the window which says 'installation in progress. Do not turn off your PC'. There is a blue bar which fills up normally. But after the bar fills up the window disappears with no future action. There is no error message or confirmation of successful install. No icons have appeared in desktop or in system tray. Action center says Avast is turned off, but clicking 'turn on' doesn't do anything. Programs list in Windows control panel does list avast, not with their trademark orange icon, but with a windows default icon. Operating system is windows 7 ultimate. I had avira and malwarebytes previously, but removed both before installing avast. Tried several times even tried repairing avast. Nothing works, please help.