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'Avast' is the worst of the whole wretched lot of commercial 'security' products for the Mac. Not only does it fail to protect you from any real danger, it may send personal data (such as web browsing history and the contents of email messages) back to the developer without your knowledge, give false warnings, destabilize and slow down the computer, expose you to network attack, and corrupt the network settings and the permissions of files in your home folder. Removing it may not repair all the damage. Some versions of the product also inject advertising into web pages.

Click the “File Paths” tab and use “Browse” to select folders that you need to exclude from Avast. To exclude a website, click the “URLs” tab and enter the URL of the website. From the main Avast window left click on the Firewall section of the left navigation menu. Next, left click on 'Application Rules' in the left navigation menu under Firewall. Select 'New Group'.

In short, apart from the fine print in the license agreement, Avast is indistinguishable from malware, and is arguably worse than any known malware now in circulation. Back up all data, then remove Avast according to the developer's.

If you tried to remove Avast by dragging an application to the Trash, you'll have to reinstall it and then follow the instructions linked above. That looks like a very definite false positive to me.

Then turn around and delete the actual offender: Avast. For quite some time, it has had the worst problem with false positives of any Mac anti-virus software. In addition, the company behind it has dabbled with adding an on-by-default adware feature to the software () and it includes a feature that will actually make your browser less secure (). Avast should never be used. (Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, TheSafeMac.com and AdwareMedic.com.).

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Avast secureline activation code for mac. That looks like a very definite false positive to me. Then turn around and delete the actual offender: Avast. For quite some time, it has had the worst problem with false positives of any Mac anti-virus software. In addition, the company behind it has dabbled with adding an on-by-default adware feature to the software () and it includes a feature that will actually make your browser less secure (). Avast should never be used. (Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, TheSafeMac.com and AdwareMedic.com.).