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How to remove antivirus if you Have two Antivirus?

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Question added by Abdulaziz Al marhon , it business analyst , Bechtel corporation
Date Posted: 2014/04/29
Clarence Edward
by Clarence Edward , Senior System Engineer , F-Secure Corporation

Control Panel -> Program and features->Uninstall will do its job for most products. Some products might be buggy though and leave stuff behind. 

 

If that happen :

       i) Use product uninstallation tool if provided

     ii) If product is completely uninstalled in the system end if

 

If not :

     i)Go to Safe mode because at this stage something might be locking the process preventing deletion. Quite common for a security program like Antivirus. Use uninstallation tool by product again if provided or use the control panel if its still there.

    ii)Use3rd party program such as CCleaner

   iii) Perform search in computer and registry for software and company name 

 iii) Software completely uninstalled?

 

If not

i) Contact support.

 

End if

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

amir nasr
by amir nasr , Technical Office Assistant , Orascom Hotels & Development Co

there is2 possible ways :1- open start menu>>all programs>> (the antivirus)>>u may find (un-install)

2- go to control panel >> add/remove programs or (programs & features) >> click on the antivirus >> remove or change (or un-install)

Sheraz Naseem
by Sheraz Naseem , CRO (Campus Relation Officer) , Allied Schools Wazirabad (Dhonkal Campus)

Go to the control panel and click on the add/remove software icon or delet the shortcut from desktop you will see the delete permenant link there.

Atif Tanveer
by Atif Tanveer , Decision Support Specialist , Hamilton Health Science

For Windows users > Control Panel, Programs, double click on targeted appliation. Un-installation process will begin

 

You can also check program folder in All Programs list if it has provided Remove/Un-install option.

Hamza Gharssallah
by Hamza Gharssallah , Customer Care Team Leader , Vodafone - Qatar

you can uninstall antivirus from uninstall launcher of the desired product, or from contro panel ( uninstall program)

also some antivirus has their own uninstall tolls as Norton and MCafee (

for example, for norton we have Norton removal tool, and for McAfee, it the MCPR tool.

 

Some other Antivirus as Gdata, Kaspersky and McAfee cannot be installed when another antivirus is pre-installed on machine, they launch automatically a removal tool to delete the Installed antivirus and then , after reboot, the installation program continue automatically.

Yassin asal
by Yassin asal , Trainer , OPPO

go to Control panel then go to Add or Remove Programs then look for the antivirus name in this programs list and then click uninstall or you can go to the drive that you installed the windows in and then go to program files and check for the antivirus name or the company name that invented the antivirus and in there u will find a file called Uninstall.exe

Basm Allah Alrahman Alrahim

 

 

 

don't !

 

just stop both from services , and start up , How ?

 

restart your PC with F8 [ windows7 ] , or use recovery DVD or USB with windows8 and later or any other way you prefer

 

at safe mode goto start search for services [ right click computer and chose manage > services]then search at services for antiviruses program and make them start manually , then goto start and type msconfig then from start tab stop any antivirus programs

 

 

 

 

 

for more information about malware , if you are from those Geeks love knowledge go to

 

malware-part-1

 

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