Uninstalling antivirus software

There are times when you have to decide uninstalling antivirus software from your PC, because you find that for whatever reason it has become corrupt and has lost desired functionality.

Following is the brief introduction to major software uninstall tools. These tools can require one or more restarts during cleaning process. So it is advised that you save all your work and close all other application before you continue.

Alwil Software Uninstall Utility (aswclear.exe)

You need to enter path to folder where selected product is installed. Click on Uninstall button and aswclear.exe will start product removal process. Apart from uninstalling avast! 4 Home/Professional, aswclear.exe can be used to remove following software from your machine.

• avast! 4 Server Edition
• BART CD Manager
• avast! for Kerio
• avast! PDA Edition
• avast! 32
• avast! Managed client
• avast! Distributed Network Manager
• avast! Windows Home Server Edition

avgremover.exe

avgremover.exe removes AVG from your computer.

BitDefender_Uninstall_Tool.exe

BitDefender_Uninstall_Tool.exe removes BitDefender v7.x, v8.x, v9.x, v10.x, BitDefender 2008, and BitDefender 2009.

Delnvc5.exe

Delnvc5.exe removes installation of Norman ASA antivirus products.

McAfee Cleanup utility (MCPR.exe)

MCPR.exe utility is used to remove instances of McAfee brand antivirus products like McAfee Personal Firewall, McAfee SpamKiller, McAfee Virus Scan etc.

Norton_Removal_Tool.exe and Norton_Removal_Tool_9x.exe

Symantec offers 2 tools to remove Norton antivirus products, in case you find it necessary to do so. Norton_Removal_Tool.exe works with Windows NT, 2000 and later versions of Microsoft Windows OS while Norton_Removal_Tool_9x.exe works with PCs running Windows 95 and 98.
Removing Panda antivirus

Panda Software International offers following 3 tools to remove its antivirus products.

• UNINST_v1012.exe
• Uninstaller.exe
• UNINSTALLER_08.exe

Like all other major antivirus manufacturers, F-Secure offers a tool that is used to remove F-Secure Service Platform, F-Secure Anti-Virus and F-Secure Internet Security from workstations where executed upon.