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Avast refuses to uninstall
« on: February 14, 2016, 11:52:59 PM »
Hi All. I am note a pc boffin. Please help with this one. I noticed that AVAST is not running on my pc. I used windows to uninstall and windows could not uninstall it. I then tried to reinstall. It is now giving me a message .....

The stub cannot run installer/updater exceutable setup\sfx\instup.exe (code 0x3)

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Re: Avast refuses to uninstall
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2016, 11:57:35 PM »

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Re: Avast refuses to uninstall
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2018, 09:02:12 AM »
Hi, didn't know you had an "uninstall Avast" utility.  Certainly, if your program had been written properly to begin with, then one would not need such a
thing.  I destroyed an "Avast Free Antivirus" installation that refused to uninstall by getting into the computer via a separate "Rescue program from
a Flash drive", then renamed all  *.DLL's to *.DILL  and all Avast exe's to *.pixie, and then I manually removed all traces of the trash heap from
the computer and the d@mn MSFT registry.   When I did that, it didn't seem that anyone at Avast even knew about necessary special "Uninstall utility". 

It makes me wonder what you guys are thinking sometimes.   Really, more foresight, more artificial intelligence please!

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Re: Avast refuses to uninstall
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2018, 09:41:02 AM »
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  f your program had been written properly to begin with, then one would not need such a thing   
If that was true then there is something wrong with ALL antivirus programs as all AV vendors have a removal tool

https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/Uninstall-other-antivirus

https://singularlabs.com/uninstallers/security-software/

https://singularlabs.com/uninstallers/



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Re: Avast refuses to uninstall
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2018, 11:22:53 PM »
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