the secure Aviator Browser is available for Mac. How do I remove it?

You need to contact Aviator Browser support for uninstall instructions > WhiteHat Aviator - The most secure browser online

When you see the ? on boot, it means your Mac cannot locate a system folder to boot from.

Statup your Mac while holding down the Option key. That should launch the Startup Manager window where you can select the startup disk then click Restart.

A flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac

I am having some of the same problems futilely trying to remove Whitehat Aviator. It seems it may be a TROJAN, possibly associated with Google. According to the following review, Aviator is built on Chromium, reports itself to be Chrome, and imitates Chrome:

http://tosbourn.com/review-whitehat-aviator/

Whenever I try to remove com.whitehatsec.aviator.dmg from my Library/Caches so that it doesn't show up in Disk Utility, I can't empty the trash without rebooting because it's claimed to be actively in use. After trashing, it always comes back into some variant of Library/Caches/UpdateEngine-Temp or UpdateEngine.503, which is a mechanism used by Google Update Engine. I trashed my only two Google programs (Chrome and Earth), but these unwanted updates are still happening. I wonder whether Whitehat Aviator has insinuated itself as malware into Google's update mechanism by pretending to be Chrome.

In any case, I don't trust Whitehat Aviator and want it off my system. Unfortunately, whitehatsec.com doesn't provide an uninstaller, support forum, or much of anything without setting up an account with them. There is very little hard useful information on their website, just hype about how virtuous they are.

Further searching turned up the following:

Library/Aviator (containing com.aviatorupdate.agent, RunUpdate, UpdateAviator, etc.)

Library/Caches/Aviator

Library/Caches/AviatorEngine

Library/Caches/UpdateEngine-Temp/com.whitehatsec.aviator.dmg-etc.

Library/Caches/UpdateEngine.503/Downloads/com.whitehatsec.aviator.dmg

Library/LaunchAgents/com.aviator.agent.plist

After trashing all these questionable files, rebooting, and emptying trash, I think I may have finally removed the Whitehat plague off my system. As an additional benefit, my Mavericks system no longer hangs for a minute with a spinning wheel on shutdown!

Also trash:

Library/Application Support/Aviator

Library/Preferences/com.whitehatsec.aviator.plist

Library/Saved Application State/com.whitehatsec.aviator.savedState

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Date: July 2, 2014 at 5:28:15 AM EDT

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You should not remove the recovery partition. It is a hidden recovery system (by design) with Mavericks to help you boot from Apple's servers in case you need to wipe your drive and/or reinstall your OS. It will show in the Startup Manager (holding Option key while rebooting) and it can also be activated by holding the Command + Option + R keys during bootup.

If you get an error when trying to delete, use Finder/Secure Empty Trash

There's one extra thing you have to check. Go into Terminal, and do "ls /Volumes"

Aviator (or whatever this thing is) does a covert, persistent mount which you can discover in Disk Utility, or by doing the above in terminal. You will also find it doesn't want to unmount, you have to force it. Use "sudo unmount force " plus the name of the drive (the quickest way is to type "com." and hit the Tab key for the shell to auto-complete - saves typing). Once you've ripped the drive out of the system you can go clean up, because it refreshes itself from that location (you can see it in the scripts on that drive). Without the resource, no refreshing. Then do a complete reboot and check if it doesn't mount itself again (I'm not aware where OSX lists what to mount on bootup, it doesn't follow the usual Unix convention of having a list somewhere in /etc - would appreciate it if someone could enlighten me).

I think I'm going to check where my Hands Off! license is - time to shut the gates properly by denying disk writes as well as network connections..

https://github.com/WhiteHatSecurity/Aviator/issues/24

I couldn't find some of the files, but I deleted all that were findable and that did the trick.

Thanks,