Due to the fact that Avira Antivirus for Mac is deep anchored in the Apple operating system, Avira provides an uninstall tool which removes cleanly the program from your system.

You can perform the uninstallation via the terminal or utilities.

Uninstall via Terminal

Uninstall via Utilities

• Open the terminal
• sudo sh /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities/Avira-Uninstall.app/Contents/MacOS/uninstall
• Enter password
• Reboot
  1. Navigate in the menu bar to Finder → Go → Utilities.
     
     
  
  
  2. Double-click on the Avira → Uninstall icon to launch the uninstallation wizard.
     
     
     
     (The Avira uninstallation wizard can be started as well by clicking Applications and dragging afterwards the Avira →Uninstall logo to the trash).
  
  
  3. Authenticate with user name (with administrative rights) and password.
  
  
  4. Avira Free Antivirus for Mac will be removed from your computer.