You have a couple of options if you want to uninstall Avast. If you have a different antivirus program you want to use or you just don’t want Avast on your computer at all, your best option would be to uninstall it completely.

Turn off one or more of the shields you want to disable.

In that menu, you can choose which of Avast’s four shields you want to disable.

On the left-hand menu, select ‘Protection’.

Here are the instructions on how to do so:

If you don’t want to disable Avast completely, but you just want to stop running a specific Avast feature, you can also do so in the Avast dashboard.

Either hit ‘Add Exception’ if you’re typing in a website, or hit ‘Browse’ to locate the program you want to add an exception for.

Then, click on ‘Add Exception’ and type in the URL or browse for the program you want to whitelist.

Under the ‘General’ tab click on ‘Exceptions’ to bring up the necessary options.

In the top-right hand corner of the dashboard, click ‘Menu’ and then ‘Settings’.

If you don’t want to go completely unprotected and you just want Avast to let a specific program run without getting blocked, you could always just whitelist that program. How to Whitelist Blocked Programs in Avast When you’re ready to turn Avast back on, you can right-click on the Avast icon again, hover over ‘Avast shields control’ and choose to enable all Avast shields.

Left-click on the option you want and Avast will be disabled.

From the expanded menu that comes up, you can choose to disable Avast for a set amount of time or indefinitely (‘Disable permanently’).

Hover over ‘Avast shields control’ on the menu that pops up.

Right-click on the orange Avast icon one you have located it.

In you taskbar, on the right-hand side, locate the orange Avast icon (you might have to click the up-arrow to ‘Show hidden icons’.

In this section, we’ll discuss how to turn off avast completely for a certain period of time, or indefinitely. You can either temporarily disable Avast completely, you can whitelist those programs or applications in Avast (so they don’t get blocked), or you can turn off specific features of Avast that are causing the program/application you are trying to run to be blocked. If you need to turn off avast completely for a specific amount of time, whether to run a specific program that gets blocked by Avast, or you want to install an application and Avast is blocking the install, you have a few choices. Should You Uninstall/Disable Avast? Turn Off/Disable Avast Completely or Temporarily How to Disable Specific Features of Avastĥ. How to Whitelist Blocked Programs in Avastģ.

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