Cannot uninstall from Catalina

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• August 15, 2020 21:58

The "Avira-uninstaller" that is supposed to sit in /Applications/Utilities was never installed. A terminal command I found on Avira's site left some files on the drive and left a process running, "com.avira.scanservice". I used Find Any File to search for every instance of "Avira" and tried to delete them all, but I could not delete several files in /Library/SystemExtensions/, nor could I stop the process. I booted in recovery mode and tried deleting the files with rm -rf, but that did not work either. How can I be rid of this product?

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  Permanently deleted user

  • August 16, 2020 02:40

  I tried recovery mode again and got it to work, but that should not have been necessary. An applcation that an ordinary user can install but not remove, and that continues to run a process in the background--this is exactly the kind of application that Avira s supposed to protect against. 

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