AVG Technologies provides a number of products from the AVG range, suitable for Windows 2000 onwards. In addition to this, AVG Technologies also provides Linux, FreeBSD, and most recently Mac OS X versions of the software. AVG Anti-Virus 9.0 is available in free and commercial editions. AVG 9.0 has identity theft protection through a partnership with Intersections Inc,.

AVG 9.0 also adds white listing, behavioral protection and cloud operations to their signature-based blocking. The software adds the Resident Shield, firewall, and identity protection modules.

The LinkScanner component has been improved to cut phishing threats further.

For desktop protection of PCs running Windows, the AVG solutions include:

• AVG Internet Security is a full suite which brings together the AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, LinkScanner, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield, Security Toolbar, Firewall, Anti-Spam, Identity Protection and System Tools protection components.
• AVG Identity Protection provides protection against identity theft and unknown malware threats using behavioral monitoring.
• AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall provides the Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, LinkScanner, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield, Security Toolbar and Firewall protection components.
• AVG Anti-spyware was a rebranded version of ewido Anti-Spyware, that was integrated into AVG Anti-Virus as of version 8.0. A free version was also available, having now been merged into AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
• AVG Anti-Rootkit was a free anti-Rootkit program that was discontinued as of late 2006. Like AVG Anti-Spyware, it has now been merged into AVG Anti-Virus
• AVGADMIN is a remote administration tool, which allows the software to be managed centrally on networks.
• AVG Anti-Virus provides the Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, LinkScanner, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield, and Security Toolbar protection components.
• AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition provides basic Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection, plus the full AVG LinkScanner safe search and surf technology.

Why You May Need to Remove or Uninstall AVG Internet Security or AVG Antivirus

The security software marketplace of today is highly competitive. Every vendor strives hard to make its security software feature rich, easy to perform yet effective. And this opens lots of choices for the users.

We often come across people who want to change their security software for one reason or the other. And when they try to change that, they have to first uninstall or delete their old security software and then only the new software is allowed to get installed.

Sometimes, during the installation, if the system crashes or the installation fails, you might have to resort to uninstall or remove the old installation.

How to Remove or Uninstall AVG Internet Security or AVG Antivirus

In an earlier post on this blog, we have reviewed a nice little utility called AVG Uninstaller. But there is yet another freeware Antivirus remover tool, which does the task of removing security software and antivirus extremely well.

We are talking about AppRemover. AppRemover™ is a software application, developed by OPSWAT, Inc., that enables the uninstallation of security applications such as antivirus and antispyware from your computer.

Head on to our review of Appremover by clicking on the link given below.

[AppRemover Review]

AhnLab, Inc., is a security solution provider in South Korea. AhnLab sells computer software such as antivirus software, online security solution, network security appliances such as firewalls, IPS, UTM, and security software for online game and Mobile Web.

AhnLab has many security solutions for PC, Network and Moblie, including:

• AhnLab V3 Internet Security 8.0 (Total Internet Security)
• AhnLab V3 Internet Security IS 7.0 Platinum (anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-malware)
• AhnLab V3 365 Clinic (anti-virus, anti-spyware, pc medic)
• AhnLab TrusGuard (Firewall, VPN, IPS, against DDoS)
• AhnLab Absolute IPS (block worms and DDoS attack)
• AhnLab Online Security (anti-malware, anti-keylogger, firewall)
• AhnLab HackShield For Online Game (real-time shielding)
• AhnLab Mobile Security (windows mobile, symbian, Wifi OS,Wii,Nindendo DS/DSXL/3DS)
• AhnLab SecuGuard for PC (security for PC)
• AhnLab TrusGuard UTM for LTAD (for securing LTAD)

Why You May need to Remove, Uninstall or Delete Your AhnLab Internet Security

Today’s Security software and antivirus suites are very complex piece of software. They work on different algorithms to remove / block the malware threats and provide you complete security.

But often, you may need to remove or uninstall a security software from your system. This may be due to the fact that you want to change the security software and your system may not allow you to run two security applications at a time. Or sometimes, there are cases when you have attempted to install a security software and the installation has failed. If you try to install the software again, it might prompt you to completely remove the first installation before proceeding to install again.

AppRemover – The Freeware Antivirus Remover Tool

AppRemover is a free utility that enables users to remove antivirus and other applications as well as left over files from incomplete uninstallations. There’s no more need to mess around with your registry.

AppRemover is a tool, which is specially useful in following scenarios…

• When replacing one security application with another
• When competing security applications tie up your computer
• When the application’s built-in uninstall process fails
• When you have forgotten the application password

Please click on the following link to read more about AppRemover.

[AppRemover Review]

The need of a specialized antivirus uninstaller arises from the that fact that it is normally very difficult to completely uninstall a security software from your computer through regular uninstall mechanisms.

However, there are a few generalized antivirus uninstaller software, which can work with most of the security software to completely remove or uninstall them. One such software is AppRemover, which is a freeware tool and is able to work with most security applications. The best part of AppRemover is that not only you can use it for a clean uninstall, but you can use it also for failed uninstall situations, where you have tried the built-in uninstall of the application but not have succeeded.

When Do you Need to Use AppRemover to Uninstall Antivirus Software

• When replacing one security application with another
• When competing security applications tie up your computer
• When the application’s built-in uninstall process fails
• When you have forgotten the application password

Here is a nice YouTube Video, which describes the application in details for those, who do not wish to read the stuff online.

[Download AppRemover]

In case you have ever desired to change your antivirus software or your Internet Security Suite, you would have noticed that it is sometimes extremely difficult to do so with the standard procedures like Add / Remove Software from Windows control panel.

The reason is that Internet Security Applications are complex software and they work in a complex fashion. Unlike other stand alone applications, they operate in close association with the operating system often sharing a lot of files and registry entries with other applications. This sometimes makes it difficult to remove them by usual methods. You might need to use the special tools developed for the uninstallation and deletion of these antivirus from your computer.

AVG Antivirus And Internet Security Remover

Similar is the case with AVG Antivirus products. AVG themselves provide you the AVH uninstallation tool in their website, which is a freeware download. You can download it and use it on your computer.

AVG Remover utility removes all parts of AVG installation on your computer, including registry items, installation and user files on your disk, etc. AVG Remover is the least option to be used in case the AVG uninstallation / repair installation process has failed repeatedly.

All AVG user settings will be removed after the uninstallation, as well as the Virus Vault content and other item related to AVG installation and use. During the removal procedure you will be asked to restart your computer. Therefore please make sure to finish your work and to save all important data prior to AVG Remover launch.

It is available for both 32bit as well as 64 bit applications.

[AVG Uninstaller Download]

In this series of articles, we have been discussing about the methods to remove or uninstall various security software suites and antivirus products from your computer. Removal of Antivirus from computer is complex and sometimes is not accomplished completely with the help of standard procedures.

The reason for this being the complex nature of these antivirus products, because of which they have to work in close integration with the operating system and sometimes they files and folders are shared by many other programs and applications.

In such cases, you have to use the specialized antivirus removal tools, which are developed just for that particular product and they are generally developed by the security software vendors themselves.

Avast Antivirus and Internet Security Software

ALWIL Software is a Czech-based company from Prague, established in April 1991. specializes in security software, with avast! antivirus being the flagship product line. The avast! antivirus range offers complete protection against viruses and spyware for both home users and businesses.

Avast Antivirus Removal

In case you are not satisfied with the performance of Avast Security products or want to remove it for any reason, the standard way to delete them is to use the Add / Remove Programs feature of Windows Control Panel. But in case you are not able to do so for any reason , or in case you find that some of the files related to Avast are not yet deleted even after the complete uninstallation, then they also provide you a neat Avast uninstall utility, which is a freeware and you can download it from their website at the link given below.

How to uninstall Avast Antivirus and Internet Security software using aswClear.exe

1. Download aswClear.exe on to your desktop
2. Start Windows in Safe Mode
3. Open (execute) the uninstall utility
4. If you installed avast! in a different folder than the default, browse for it. (Note: Be careful! The content of any folder you choose will be deleted!)
5. Click REMOVE
6. Restart your computer

The art and science of virus removal is very complex. The security software have to integrate themselves with the operating system and the applications running on your computer in a complex manner and often their files are shared by other programs as well.

This means that when you try to uninstall or remove an already installed antivirus or Internet Security software from your computer from the standard procedures like Add / Remove Programs feature of Windows Control Panel, there are fair chances that the software does not get correctly uninstalled and there are some files, folders and registry entries, which might affect the performance of your computer.

Hence, you might need a specialized tool for the removal of complex software like BitDefender Antivirus or Internet Security.

BitDefender Uninstall Tool

Thankfully, most of the security software vendors understand this situation and provide a special tool for the removal of their security software, just in case a customer wants a change or remove their software from his computer.

BitDefender Unistallation tool can be downloaded from their website directly. It is a freeware and can be used for both 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems.

[BitDefender Unistall Tool Download Link]

Antivirus and security software work closely with your operating system. There are lots of files, registry entries and processes, which are shared by them, and sometimes it becomes difficult for an average computer user to delete, remove or uninstall an existing antivirus product with the usual uninstallation procedures.

This is specially required, when you are switching or changing your security or antivirus software. In such cases, you have either to use the specialized antivirus removal tools developed for that particular product, or you might have to resort to some advanced file and registry entries in your computer.

In this post, we are describing how you can remove or uninstall F-Secure Antivirus from your computer.

Automatic F-Secure Antivirus Removal Tool

1. Download the UITool3-420.zip file.
2. Unzip the contents of the zip file to an empty directory.
3. Carefully read the readme.txt file before running the uninstallation tool.
4. Run the UninstallationTool.exe file by double-clicking it.

Please read the following before starting the use of Automatic F-Secure Antivirus Removal Tool.

1. The tool will not remove F-Secure software if it was installed directly into an unsafe location, such as c:\, c:\windows or c:\program files. This is because it will delete the directory into which F-Secure was installed and, as such, it would also delete the rest of the files.
2. The tool will remove all installed F-Secure products, and should therefore be used with extreme caution on F-Secure Policy Manager, F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange and F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Server installations. Running the uninstallation tool on a Policy Manager server without a backup means that you will have to reinstall all clients.

Manual Removal of F-Secure Antivirus

In case you fell confident about manipulating your registry files and processes, then there is a complete guide for the removal of different F-Secure Antivirus files, folders and registry keys, which you can do manually. These are from the authentic source, but you have to be careful while deleting and modifying these files, because they can otherwise create lots of troubles for the smooth functioning of your other applications and operating system.

You can follow the instructions for the manual removal of F-Secure Antivirus applications on this web page.