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User profile for user: Barbarapdx
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Antivirus Uninstall

In reading in this community I understand that an antivirus program is not needed on a mac. I have a 2016 MacBook pro with AVG installed. the free version, it is always giving me notices to upgrade to the paid version, so I went to uninstall it. It does not let me uninstall like I do all other applications by dragging to the trash because it says it's open. So I try to close it, I can't see a way to do this, but there is an AVG uninstall application. Will this be all I need to do? I am asking because this is so different than all other applications when I need to remove them.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.4

Posted on Jul 26, 2022 7:10 AM

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User profile for user: Luis Sequeira1
Luis Sequeira1
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Posted on Jul 26, 2022 7:46 AM

Yes, you should run the uninstall application.


If you are in doubt whether it was completely removed afterwards, download and run Etrecheck, and post its report here so we can have a look.

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