How can I remove System Extensions in Ventura?

I have 3 systems extensions that concern me. Fortunately I know the related softare, and it's nothing malicious, but I'd still like rid of them.


  1. A Drobo extension for which I receive a warning every time my Mac boots. I removed the Drobo Dashboard software months ago, but this warning persistes. I can't find it on the filesystem and it doesn't show up when running: systemextensionsctl list
  2. AVG Antivirus System Extension - I uninstalled this months ago, and it does show under systemextensionsctl
  3. org.pqrs.Karabiner-DriverKit-VirtualHIDDevice - I uninstalled this a long time ago, and it does show under systemextensionsctl


I tried uninstalling #2 & #3 but get the following error:


➜ sudo systemextensionsctl uninstall XSJ59WMJBM com.avg.Antivirus.SystemExtension
At this time, this tool cannot be used if System Integrity Protection is enabled.
This limitation will be removed in the near future.
Please remember to re-enable System Integrity Protection!


However, for #1 I can't find even find where it is, and the pop-up message on boot does not help me find it.


Any suggestions?

Mac mini (M2 Pro, 2023)

Posted on Jul 5, 2023 08:34 AM

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Jul 5, 2023 09:23 AM in response to m0thr4

If these System Extensions were inherited from an older release of macOS and are installed in /System/Library/Extensions, then they are on the signed, read-only System volume in Ventura and there is no removing them short of a clean install. System Integrity Protection will not help with Ventura content on the System volume.


The systemsextensionsctl may only work on extensions installed in /Library/Extensions of current macOS releases.

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