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Stop Avast from installing itself without permission
A few days ago Avast Premium Security installed itself in my win10Vm without permission. I have repeatedly tried uninstalling it with the windows add/remove programs feature, and with the 1st party avast cleaner. In both cases Avast reinstalls itself within a few minutes.
Increasing the windows UAC notification level and requiring notification for installing non-Microsoft-Store apps does not appear to prevent Avast from reinstalling itself.
Googling the issue suggests that in a lot of cases this behavior is due to Avast piggybacking on some other installer, but I haven't installed any other software recently.
I haven't (willingly) used Avast in a decade and have no desire to be dragooned back into it.
I'd appreciate any insight into A) why this happened and B) how to get rid of it.
Thanks!
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