How to uninstall AVG LinkScanner for Mac

Thanks, Robert. For many months, I had tried to trace AVG Linkscanner on my computer. It was not possible to find the place it was hiding. Thanks your help I got rid of that crapware. 🙂

This is my first time posting and just wanted to say thank you for sharing!!! Ive always wondered how to get rid of that. Cheers!

Thanks a lot mate! that was really helpful 🙂

G´day!

Had to reninstall before the uninstall would work. Purchased a newmac book for my son and was restoring from a timemachine backup when I found this crappy App. Could not install Norton until this was removed.

Absolutely flipping brilliant. This AVG rubbish has been my Kryptonite and I've tempted to throw it out the window. As you say dragging into the trash just doesn't do it but brilliant thank you loads!

I can not thank you enough. I've had this on my Mac for years now and it was driving me nuts. Thanks again you're a life saver.

It worked, it worked! The Wicked Witch is dead! 😁

Dear RobertTweedie!

I, too, can not thank you enough. I've had avg on my comouter for years. I think it started out good but turned bad. I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to get that creature off my mac! And now even the little icon on my menu bar has finally disappeared! So many thanks!

Next though,...so is MacKepper a bad one too?? I think I paid money for that one. Am I a sucker?

Kind Regards,

Hunter Thomas

Many thanks for your post Robert...very helpful - AVG seemed to be downloading GBs of stuff every day on my Mac so had enough of it!! Sticking with ClamXav...

Cheers,

Jim K

RobertTweedie wrote:

My trash started prompting me for my password whenever I placed an item in it after installing either AVG LinkScanner or MacKeeper, both of which i have now, at long last, successfully removed.

The behavior you observed regarding MacKeeper is a "feature". The uninstaller is built into the app and is automatically run when it senses it's being deleted, but requires admin privileges in order to unload and remove many of the other files it has scattered around. They seem to change the list of files that need to be removed a lot, so if you sense you still might have something lurking you might find this helpful: how to uninstall MacKeeper – updated.

HunterT3001 wrote:

is MacKepper a bad one too?? I think I paid money for that one. Am I a sucker?

Most forum members recommend against it's use. It has a long rather sordid history of using aggressive advertising that often involved stretching the truth. In the beginning the code was unpolished and could do more harm than good. I am led to believe that the latter is no longer a problem and they have at least pretended to change ownership to try and clean up their act, but only time will tell if that's enough.

I guess I'd have to ask you why you think you need an application such as MacKeeper? There is freeware available which can do almost everything it does, but in the hands of an inexperienced user, all of these utilities can be harmful and should never be used for periodic, routine maintenance tasks. The system takes very good care of itself, so they should only be used when you sense there is a problem and target the problem, not fire a shotgun at it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Finally my free memory level is decent again :-) I think that the AVG Linkscanner was occuping most of my memory all the time.

All the best to you

Thanks again

Silvia

Hi Silvia,

Try to publish this to other places,too. I think, there are thousands of victims of this crapware.

Hi,

I can't seem to run the uninstaller! It crashes and only using cmd+alt+esc overcome this problem.

Do you have anyother suggestion to uninstall this AVG software?

Thank you,

Daniela