Right-click on Overseer, and in the pop-up menu, click on Delete. In Windows File Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\AVAST Software. You’ll need to confirm that you want to delete it, and after doing so, it will be gone. Right-click on that task and click Delete. The middle pane will show a single task, “Overseer”. In the left-hand pane, click on the greater-than sign in front of “Task Scheduler Library” to expand its contents, and then click on “Avast Software”. Task Scheduler showing the Overseer task.
Removing the overseer taskĬlick the Start icon, start typing “scheduler”, and click on Task Scheduler when it appears in the results. The short answer is that it lives in C:\Program Files\Common Files\AVAST Software\Overseer, and it’s run by the system’s Task Scheduler. I didn’t find it in any start-up information, so I dug deeper into finding out where it lives and how it gets run. I uninstalled Avast, only to note that “Avast Overseer” was still running even after the final reboot. It showed up on my system after I accidentally installed Avast as a PUP while installing CCleaner. Overseer.exe is explained in an Avast support forum as “an application that is going to help us detect common (technical) issues with our products.” The gist is that it periodically looks for common problems in Avast software and (presumably) attempts to fix them. The problem, as I discovered myself, is that uninstalling Avast did not remove overseer.exe. Overseer.exe is apparently installed sometimes by Avast Free Anti- virus (and possibly other packages).
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