Avast Won’t Let Me Shut Down My Macbook; What Should I Do?

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Avast Wont Let Me Shut Down My Macbook What
Should I Do?
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• Avast antivirus gets a lot of praise for its
  thoroughness, versatility and flexibility but
  there is also a blatant downside to all of this.
  Whenever the antivirus application freezes, it
  takes hold of the entire system and prevents
  functionalities like peripheral interface and
  others. Consequently, your Macbook doesnt close
  down. Additionally, it leaves the system
  vulnerable to malware infections and other
  infectious entities. In such cases, it becomes
  important to compartmentalize the scenario and
  analyze the system to sought out troubleshoots.

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• Avast Support Australia brings to you the
  symptoms, precautions andrecommendations
  pertaining to this issue.

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• Symptom analysis often leads to diagnostic
  solutions itself. Consequently, it provides us
  with the causes and then solutions. Analyzing
  these circumstances entail patience, and a lot of
  luck. But do not worry, with the following, you
  would not only know the symptoms but would be
  well informed enough to fix the issues by
  yourself

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• Symptom To catch on to this issue beforehand,
  you need to notice the symptoms. When the
  antivirus software crashes, it becomes
  unresponsive enough to give out a waiting
  cursor pointer whenever you try to access it. You
  would be notified when there is no response.
  Further access would lead your desktop to shut
  down. In direr cases, the software would freeze
  the entire system and what you would be left with
  is a lit up unresponsive Macbook.
• Causes When it comes to the factors that can
  affect antivirus software, the most prevalent
  reasons is virus itself. A virus might damage an
  integral library or remove it entirely. When such
  things happen, you would experience a temporary
  loading issue. Additionally, you might have the
  wrong version of the Avast antiviral tool.
  Needless to say, Avast is a processor intensive
  application t that end it is only compatible
  with Intel based Mac OS X operating system.
  Anything less than this could easily disable the
  program and in the long run affect the system as
  well.

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• Quit by force Initially, your system wont be
  affected. In this case, you might want to apply
  force quitting of the software. When all else
  fails, conventional method of shutting down Avast
  antivirus is nigh possible. to accomplish this
  task
• Apple avails a force quit window to its users.
  Click on the apple icon and open this window.
• Much akin to the task manager in windows
  operating system, you would see the currently
  running applications n the resultant list. Select
  Avast and then click on force quit option.
• Final tips If this problem persists at every
  turn, you might to uninstall and reinstall the
  antivirus application. This would overwrite the
  damaged files with the fresh ones. If required
  an available, updating the application might also
  fix the issue

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• For further information, contact Avast
  Technical Support Australia on their toll free
  number 61-283206026. Here, you would not only be
  provided with necessary troubleshoots for this
  problem, but also some refined methodologies to
  get maximum out of your antivirus program.
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  My Macbook What Should I Do?