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In the appeared window click the Uninstall button.

Go to the menu bar → click on Help → select Support.

For this click on the antivirus icon in the toolbar and select Kaspersky Internet Security.

Open Kaspersky Internet Security window.

Steps on how to completely uninstall Kaspersky from Mac: We will provide a step-by-step guide on how to do this. To completely uninstall Kaspersky from your Mac, you will need first to remove it through its menu and then manually find and remove its remaining files. How to uninstall Kaspersky through its menu

We will explain how to find Kaspersky’s leftovers.

To completely uninstall Kaspersky from Mac, you need to find and remove its remaining files even after using its native uninstaller.

Then we searched for its service files on a Mac disk and discovered that the provided manual does not uninstall the Kaspersky completely.

Before writing this guide, we uninstalled Kaspersky using the steps provided on its official Kaspersky uninstallation guide.

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