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Comprehensive List of Uninstallers or Removal Tools for Antivirus Software

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

May
5
2009

Running two antivirus products on the same computer can cause system instability, degraded performance and maybe the inability to identify a virus correctly. I’ve even heard of a case where someone managed to install as many as 3 antivirus on his computer and yet no problems. I would say he is just plain lucky and one day the antivirus will conflict and give so much trouble that he won’t be able to recover Windows from the crash. It is very important that any previously installed antivirus software is uninstalled from your system before proceeding with the installation of the next antivirus that you would like to install.

The standard method of uninstalling an antivirus is from Add or Remove Programs but sometimes the uninstallation process would hang and you won’t be able to remove the antivirus from your system. When this happen, you can try using the removal tool provided by the antivirus company to remove the installed antivirus. I always have a list of uninstallers for antivirus software on my USB flash drive. Here I am sharing with you guys my list and perhaps it could help you uninstall an antivirus program that you’re having trouble uninstalling..


Most of the uninstallers below are very straight forward. Just download, run the file and click a button to proceed with the uninstallation. Some is a little more complicated and requires more steps which I’ve noted.

1. avast!

Uninstall avast!

Special note: Boot Windows to Safe Mode and run the uninstall utility.

[ Download avast! Uninstall Utility ]

2. AVG

Uninstall AVG

[ Download AVG Remover 32-bit | 64-bit ]

3. Avira

Uninstall Avira

Special Note: Avira doesn’t have a removal tool but they do provide a registry cleaner to remove traces of Avira so that you can reinstall and then uninstall. This tool is in German, you’ll have to click on the button called “Keys auslesen” to search the registry for any issues. Then place checkmarks next to the registry entries you wish to delete and click the “Löschen” button to delete the keys.

[ Download Avira RegCleaner ]

4. BitDefender

Uninstall Bitdefender

[ Download BitDefender Uninstall Tool 32-bit | 64-bit ]

5. Computer Associates

Uninstall Computer Associates Antivirus

Special Notes: Computer Associates uninstaller requires internet connection to verify and download the full version of uninstaller.

[ Download CA SupportBridge for 2008 | 2009 products ]

6. ESET

Uninstall NOD32

Special Note: This is an unofficial dutch language ESET removal tool.

[ Download NOD32Removal ]

7. F-Secure

Uninstall F-Secure

Special Note: The uninstaller will automatically reboot the computer without warning.

[ Download F-Secure Removal Tool ]

8. Kaspersky

Uninstall Kaspersky

[ Download Kaspersky Anti-Virus Remover ]

9. McAfee

Manually Uninstall McAfee with MCPR

[ Download McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool ]

10. Windows Live OneCare

Uninstall Windows Live OneCare

[ Download Windows Live OneCare Cleanup Tool ]

11. Norton / Symantec

Uninstall Norton with Norton Removal Tool

[ Download Norton Removal Tool ]

12. G DATA

Uninstall G DATA Antivirus

[ Download G DATA AV-Cleaner ]

13. Panda Security

Uninstall Panda Security Antivirus

[ Download Panda Security Uninstaller ]

14. Trend Micro

Uninstall Trend Micro PC Cillin

Special Notes: After download, extract and run TISTOOL.exe file. Click the Uninstall tab, and then click the Uninstall button. Select the Trend Micro program that you’d like to uninstall from the drop down box and click Uninstall.

[ Download Trend Micro Diagnostic Toolkit 32-bit | 64-bit ]

15. AppRemover

Uninstall antivirus and antispyware AppRemover

Special Note: AppRemover is an unofficial tool to uninstall security applications such as antivirus and antispyware from your computer. Other than able to support removal some of the antivirus above, it can also uninstall Spy Sweeper, Trend Micro PC-Cillin, SpyCatcher, Sophos, SpyBot, Spyware Doctor, Norman, Spyware BeGone, Ad-aware, Bazooka Scanner, SpywareBlaster, eEye Blink, ClamWin, CheckPoint, BullGuard, RISING and AhnLab V3 VirusBlock.

[ Download AppRemover ]

Phew that was long. I had this in my WordPress draft for many many months but didn’t have the time to finish it until today ;)


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    • john bosco

      hi ray…..this is pretty much needed by everyone i suppose….thanks….

    • Yaman

      thanks raymond great article ,i always get problems when uninstalling AVG it is bad even when remove .

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Yeap I had to use them very frequently because the students in one of the educational lab always install their own favorite AVs.

    • xje4bv

      You mistagged Bitdefender as “Download AVG Remover”.

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Thanks xje4bv, updated.

    • ha14

      Some antivirus engine should be cleanly removed and these applications are really handy in order to not create conflict when we choose to instal another antivirus.

    • http://beliamuda.com beliamuda

      nice list of uninstaller..

    • juhani

      Thanks!
      Ever heard of (or tried) OPSWAT AppRemover?
      http://www.appremover.com/

    • vicky

      nice post ray……thanks very much
      its very useful for me avg never remove properly and conflicts with kis 2009

    • pooh

      i too have problems uninstalling AVs.
      & i too tried the above removal tools $ suceeded
      but it’s good to have all at one place.
      good work ray!!

    • Stax

      Thx Raymond, really usefull. And thank you again for all your work :)

    • manoj

      thanks a lot for this nice information..

    • rj4311

      i downloaded norton removal tool but it says”the file is corrupt”…

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Err juhani, I’ve already included AppRemover in the list. I guess you must have just scroll right to the bottom and commented.

    • Za3mOn

      hey, why i can’t dig this article?! :(

      “This URL has been widely reported by users for one of the following reasons: being used to spam Digg’s submission process, posting spam content, or posting off-topic content”

    • nkdy

      wow, useful review, thanks Ray

    • brian white

      Try this one Windows Steadystate..

    • juhani

      Sorry Raymond, I scrolled too fast:)

    • 123vso

      hey ray please answer to this!

      You have mentioned about “kon-boot cd” on an early article.
      when i use the cd,my pc gave a messege named

      “Windows NT has not found enough extended memory. 7Mb of extended memory is required to run Windows NT. You may need to upgrade your computer or run a configuration program provided by the manufacturer.”

      PLEASE SOLVE THIS RAY….I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL…………….

    • suiss

      Thanks .Very comprehensive

    • chris

      Great list Raymond but……. if you could find a Drweb remover that would be great, I’ve found it virtually impossible to uninstall.
      Cheers.

    • sbeireis

      Thank you Ray for the post. And here I thought I was protecting every corner of my PC. I have Cleanse Uninstaller Pro so I guess I better start removing Apps, but which ones are ok to leave? I Have Advanced System Care 3, Iolo System Shield 3, Windows Defender, Windows Doctor, Arrange Startup, Registery Mechanic, Ad-Aware, Hijack This, Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, SUPERAntiSpyware, I should have realized I was falling into the catagory of “too much of a good thing”,
      But I do want to let you know how much I have learned from you and your posts. Thank you.

    • http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/HeartWalker/ Vanamali S

      Hey Ray..

      2009 Chapeau Blog Awards Winners!
      Congratulations to
      Raymond.CC
      Tech Blog
      for being named 2009′s Best Technology Blog!

      Yoohoo Ray.. I am so happy that you got the best. You deserve it. I and all my friends voted for you. I was so happy when I saw the results.

      As ever you rock today also with this wonderful product.

      thanks

      Vanamali.S

    • Paul Ordillano

      Hi Ray, many thank’s to you….congrat’s Raymond.cc Tech blog______ for being named 2009′s Best Technology Blog! Keep it up! Ray,you are BEST!…

    • longman

      congrat ray for being the best 2009′s Best Technology Blog!

    • Myron

      I’m glad you won the award. Congrats to you and all of those behind the spotlight that help you out also!!!!

    • minnetonka

      Raymond,
      Today’s list of uninstallers is another good example why I have created a folder just for your newsletter, which is also the first thing I read every morning. Thank you for all your hard work and I constantly refer to your information.

      Thanks

    • Varun Nagwekar

      Congrats on getting voted the best tech website Raymond. This site is certainly one of the best ones out there and has helped me a lot many times over the past 1-2 years. You certainly deserve this.

      Thank you.

    • mafia87

      Really, did ramond.cc won? Congratulation man.. you deserve it… :) BTW, nice article… thank you..

    • Mike Bromley

      Very interesting. Any idea how to remove Avast completely? I tried the avast uninstaller that should remove in safe mode……can’t now get into safe mode!
      System restore makes no difference by the way. M$ vista home premium.

    • kstan23

      great info!!!
      thanks dude..

    • webcadre

      thanks ray for sharing us your favorite tools, :)

    • Izam Saad
    • Eli

      Congratulations Raymond.cc

    • Beverly

      Raymond….this is great info…which is also the reason you were voted 2009′s Best Technology Blog by Chapeau Blog Awards!!!! Congratulations…you deserve it!!! I for one say Thank you Raymond!!!

    • Sunny Yeung

      useful. nice . thankyou

    • Isobel

      Hey Raymond, congrats for being named the 2009′s Best Technology Blog. You definitely deserved it!!

    • http://www.raymond.cc yosu

      hi, thanks for your updation, it very useful in my work.

    • mk

      best post in along time ray

    • http://photographiczen.etsy.com ms

      wow, great finds, thanks for the info ray!

    • LunarWolf

      Good find and will be handy for people.

      Just one question, do we run this tool after we uninstall it manually or use this tool to uninstall it?

    • Burhan

      Congratulations Ray for winning the Chapeau Blog Award for best Technology Blog. Everyone, three cheers for Raymond………

      Our votes made it :)

    • hanan

      wow

      nice tip

      thanx alot Ray

      u r the best
      :-)

    • aamirullah

      Congratulations to Raymond.CC Tech Blog

    • Budy Sasongko

      Hay Ray..

      2009 Chapeau Blog Awards Winners!
      Congratulations to
      Raymond.CC
      Tech Blog
      for being named 2009’s Best Technology Blog!

      You definitely deserved it!!

      Budy

    • R Morrow

      One of the best posts in a long time. This one is sure to be bookmarked as everyone at one time or another has the need to uninstall one of these products.

    • fIRAS

      THANK YOU RAY NICE REMOVAL TOOLS AND CAN ALWAYS BE HELPFUL ;-)

    • Mike

      i know this hasnt got out to do with this but well fone on winning the best blog for technology

    • Junn

      Hi Raymond,

      Congratulations to you and your world-famous blog!

      “Congratulations to Raymond.CC Tech Blog for being named 2009′s Best Technology Blog!”

      I’m very, very proud of this great achievement. I have my vote all over it!

      All the tireless, resourceful effort poured into Raymond.CC is simply beyond compare.

      More power, friend Raymond, and keep it up.

      I’ll vote for you again and again … as long as I can!

      Mabuhi ka, Raymond!

      Junn.

    • halil

      This is a very usefull article, congratilations Ray

    • Merlin_Magii

      A VERY useful list Raymond – THANK YOU !

      Warmest congratulations on winning the tech blog award – it made sending a number of emails to friends urging them to vote for you, worth the effort ! Well done – carry on the good work Sir !

    • Steven

      Hey raymond..you won the tech Blog Award men..I got an emaill..
      congrats man…….Good Luck..

      Thanks Man.

    • http://www.mp33pm.co.uk FaeGiN

      You WON the best blog award!
      Too right!
      Congratulations.
      :)

    • http://evilfantasy.wordpress.com Kevin (evilfantasy)

      Nice article. I have one similar but I had never heard of the AppRemover. Thanks!

    • http://www.meason.co.cc Alok

      Congratulations Ray for being named 2009′s Best Technology Blog!!!

      :-) :-) :-) :-)

    • Sam

      Hey Ray,

      Congratulations man! I was extremely happy that you WON the best blog award for 2009….. I feel like I won this…. Keep going…. I will support you as always…..

      Sam

    • Melone06

      congrats on the win ray :)

    • Luis

      Hey what can i say keep up the good work everybody here agrees you deserve this award =) Raymond.

    • Akash jain

      Congratulations Raymond for being named 2009′s Best Technology Blog by Chapeau Blog Awards… You truly deserve it..

    • Raj Kanwar

      Hey Raymond,

      Heartly congratulations, for being declared as 2009′s Best Technology Blog by Chapeau Blog Awards.. Hats off man!!

      Raj

    • Zak Ember

      thnx a lot, ray. i was recently having loads of trouble to uninstall my kaspersky. u are a life saviour

    • Jose Martinez

      Mr Raymond:

      Very useful for me. How should you know I needed this?

      Thank you for all your effort,

      Best regards,

    • http://www.bulawebs.com Steven

      woow ..You I was the first one to get notified about raymond winning..col.
      cheers

    • FreakyMan

      I just removed avast from my pc and installed bitdefender internet security 2009 after I bought it from their site. It’s better with this one. I feel more protected against threats.

    • Michael C.

      Nice, now do you have one for iolo System Shield? Using process explorer, I still see it running under services

    • Liam K

      Or replace all of the above with Revo Uninstaller, which works perfectly.

    • http://madhabspace.blogspot.com sunkumarspace

      VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE, I THINK THE SECURITY SOFTWARE VENDOURS SHOULD GIVE OR PREPARE THE UNINSTALLERS AS SOMETIMES UNIBSTALLATIONS BECOMES A BORING AND LONG PROCESS THANKS

    • happy

      Thanks for the uninstallers. Congratulations for winning the award !

    • excite..

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVAST_ANTIVIRUS.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVG7CORE.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVG7RSW.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROL\SET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVG7RSXP.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVG8WD.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVGCLEAN.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVGIO.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVGLDX86.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVGNTFLT.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVGNTMGR.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVGTDI.
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CONTROLSET001\ENUM\ROOT\LEGACY_AVGTDIX.
      and CONTROLSET002 same too.., AVAST UNINSATLL UTILITY, AVG REMOVAR and also REVO UNINSTALLER can not delete it…

    • http://linux2.arinet.org Fajar

      Very good and useful article! Thanks for the hardwork. Congrats!

    • Darius´

      thanks ray, this usefull collection of uninstallers we all need

    • Marcia R.

      how do i get rid of Prevx3.0?

    • http://www.paulrepair.blogspot.com Paul

      Thanks for the great links! Very helpful.

    • http://www.raymond.cc/forum/members/grr.html Grr

      Some of the links are dead. Could someone pls fix it.

    • http://www.antivirusfirewallsoftwaremall.com Antivirus firewall

      thanks for the list of UNINSTALLER these are very helpful.. i also encountered the same problem where i cannot delete my present antivirus..thanks for your blog, now i have the idea how to remove it.

    • Joe A.TT

      Congrats on the award! Nice blog, especially for a newbie like me.

    • Joe A.TT

      By the by, I trying to remove the Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner which doesn’t work on Win 7 64x. The removal procedure given on the Windows Live Center doesn’t work. Would the Windows Live Cleanup Tool remove ONLY the Scanner? Or should I try AppRemover?

    • http://none Bobbi Millner

      I have ‘supposedly’ anti virus software, that just appeared on my computer today. I am unable to run my MSSE as I tried. Keep getting popups that say “Click this message to install the latest windows security software. Also popups that say click here to remove these threats immediately. According to this no applications can be executed as they are infected.
      Please help

    • Anjaneyulu

      Please send me Unistaller or Removal Tools for Emsisoft Anti Malware antivirus

    • Teresa

      Hi Raymond!
      This is my first time here.
      Firstly, Thank You for your list and
      your helpful information.
      I couldn’t get the F-Secure link to work, but with a quick search, I found it with your info.
      I thought you might appreciate that!

      below:

      ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/tools/uitool/UninstallationTool.zip

    • Samanta85

      Thank you very much. I found a collection of removal tools – AV Uninstall Tools Pack.

      Download: http://uninst.ru/index/0-36

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