{"id":16278,"date":"2019-02-13T12:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16278"},"modified":"2019-02-13T12:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T17:22:56","slug":"the-tools-you-need-to-uninstall-popular-antivirus-security-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/the-tools-you-need-to-uninstall-popular-antivirus-security-software\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tools You Need to Uninstall Popular Antivirus\/Security Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tools You Need to Uninstall Popular Antivirus\/Security Software<\/span><\/h1>\n

Most security software companies will tell you it’s as easy as using Control Panel\/Programs\/Uninstall a program to remove their antivirus\/security software. That’s what they’d like you to believe, but the truth is that if you uninstall most security software using Control Panel, you’ll end up with a lot of leftovers and even running services you don’t need or want.<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ve compiled a list of programs offered by the security software companies that will help you completely remove antivirus\/security software from your computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Avast Removal Tool<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nNote: Avast claims you must run this in safe mode, but we’ve successfully uninstall Avast from many computers just running it in normal Windows.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

AVG Removal Tool\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Avira Removal Tool<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kaspersky Removal Tool<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

McAfee Removal Tool<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Removes most McAfee security products<\/span><\/p>\n

Norton Remove and Reinstall Tool<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Removes most Norton Security products<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: This is called the Norton Remove and Reinstall Tool and that’s just what it will do if you’re not careful :It will remove Norton and reinstall it, unless you do this:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Double-click the NRnR icon. Read the license agreement, and click Agree.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Click Advanced Options. Click Remove Only.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Click Remove.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Click Restart Now.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Panda Removal Tool<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Trend Micro Removal Tool<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Vipre Removal Tool<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thinking about changing your security software? <\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

We use and recommend Emsisoft. When you purchase an Emsisoft license from this page<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, we’ll remove your old security software and set up Emsisoft correctly – all for the price of the Emsisoft license.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Tools You Need to Uninstall Popular Antivirus\/Security Software Most security software companies will tell you it’s as easy as using Control Panel\/Programs\/Uninstall a program to remove their antivirus\/security software. That’s what they’d like you to believe, but the truth is that if you uninstall most security software using Control Panel, you’ll end up with a lot of\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1683,1,1656,1674,10],"tags":[2937,2936,976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16282,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions\/16282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}