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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: REDACTED on November 29, 2015, 05:07:18 AM
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Hi I have completely uninstalled Avast off of my machine using AWSclear. However upon reboot of my machine, it continues to try and install a driver for the Avast Firewall NDIS Miniport. During the windows update service the machine remains mostly unusable until the process allows me to skip it. After a full uninstall of Avast, why is this service still running? Somewaht related is another service which I was able to turn to manual called AvastVBox COM Service.
I would like all of Avast off of my machine, can someone please walk me through how to do this?
Thanks!
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I have completely uninstalled Avast off of my machine using AWSclear.
aswclear does not remove everything, just several things.
If you want to remove avast completely you will need to do it manually.
- Remove all folders/files related to avast
- Remove all registry entries that avast added
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Jesus christ Avast is a bad company.
- If you install their program, an uninstall is provided. It doesn't remove all.
- A separate uninstall tool is somewhere in their webpages that user has to magically understand that it exists and the normal uninstall doesn't work properly, unlike with almost all other software. It doesn't remove all.
- User has to, after all previous steps, still manually clean their computer.
Does this make ANY SENSE? And fanboys, please really think about it first before posting a reply. Thank you.
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avast is not the only one where not everything is removed if you do it through control panel and/or use the uninstall tool.
The majority of software leave traces behind after removal and it has been that way for decades.