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Antivirus (AV) stand alone removal tools
The nature of Anti-virus (AV) programs is to protect your system from unauthorized changes.
This often interferes with a clean uninstall of the program.
To resolve this, many AV vendors provide a stand alone removal tool for their product.
Read the links for your AV product, follow the detailed instructions on the product page and if provided, use the stand alone tool referenced on the page.
The best way to uninstall an AV product from your machine:
- Use Programs and Features to uninstall the base product
- Read any Processing notes below for the product you are trying to uninstall
- Restart your machine after removing the product from Programs and Features
- Check Action Center to make sure Windows Defender is running - start it if it is not
- Run the removal utility in Command Prompt (Admin) for the AV product you removed above
Read the instructions and ask any questions before running the utility.
Most are straight-forward, but some do have precautions.
- Restart your machine after running the stand alone removal tool
- Check Action Center to make sure Windows Defender is running - start it if it is not
- Launch Command Prompt (Admin)
Enter the following command in the Command Prompt windowSFC /scannow
Last edited by essenbe; 07 Mar 2020 at 23:13. Reason: Updated Malwarebytes clean Link