[dba-Tech] Avast -- Evil Empire Incarnate

[Jim Lawrence]

Looking into your FF. Avast on FF is just an extension or plug-in and these can be removed.

Just go to the far right FF menu, select the "add-ons" manager or <ctrl-shift-A> On this page it will give you complete access to all extensions, add-ons and plug-ins. Remove and install as you like. I am sure "Avast" and a few of its associates will be there. Kill them all. ;-)

Jim  

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2019 7:05:44 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Avast -- Evil Empire Incarnate

Thanks for the link. I think it will not solve my problem, however. Several
months ago I converted my main machine from Windows 10 to Linux Mint,
including reformatting the drive, and somehow Avast survived that. I don't
even know how that is possible, but Avast apparently does know. I suppose I
could run Windows in a VirtualBox, but I suspect that won't let me get to
the bottom layer.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:30 AM Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Avast has a removal tool
>
> https://www.avast.com/en-us/uninstall-utility
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 7:08 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > How the hell to permanently un-install this evil software? It is
> downright
> > evil and I can't seem to get rid of it, short of restoring Windows to its
> > original state.
> >
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