Making AVAST Go Away?

Wonder why it didn't offer me Avast then? Ah, who knows anymore? I switched from Avast when they bought AVG and want nothing more to do with them myself. Still it bothers me that Piriform would be doing this. Silly I know but........

AMDMan2016 said:

Piriform is now part of the Avast Family was announced a few months ago I think or at least a month ago not exactly sure. didn't see that on my systems though as all systems already use Avast for now til Fall Creators update then might decide not to use it, not sure yet

Nope, I hadn't heard that. Hmph, now I have a quandary....................................

The Only Sreeen I ever see when updating CCleaner is this one.....Never even seen a screen with Avast listed. :)

AMDMan2016 said:

Considering Switching myself, but taking it a little slower, as been using Avast for like 10 years since 2006, maybe 11 years lost count now. Anyways it works pretty well for most part, not sure i'll stay with it after Fall Creators update, will see

as for Ccleaner, the install dialog has changed since last version, so maybe it's the new Avast install way, who knows why some offered Avast and some not offered it


Welcome Piriform to Avast!
Annouced on July 19th 2017

Not sure what link you followed or what you typed to get there, but that's just a PR splat for Avast buying Piriform, nothing else. The install "dialog" is the same as always, just uncheck what you do not want.

That shot in Post #8 is from the installer, not from the link to download.

Back to my original question, can I safely just the delete that collection of avast leftovers. There's no ".exe" files in any of it. I really don't like doing the "avastclear" routine. Reminds me of my experiences with Norton.