Anyone tried to uninstall Avira Antivirus ??

[frozentundra123456]

I decided to uninstall Avira antivirus and use the new free security essentials suite from Microsoft.

I did the uninstall with Revo uninstaller, but I was still getting pop-ups from the Avira program. When I manually looked in the Program files, there was still a folder for Avira. I could not delete the folder manually.

Has anyone else had this problem, and are there any solutions for getting rid of the program completely? I decided to get rid of it because it kept popping up a warning about a game that I had installed, which no other programs detected as malicious. Now it is still giving these warnings even though the program is turned off and supposedly uninstalled.

 

[quakeworld]

This worked for me:

http://www.avira.com/en/support/kbdetails.php?id=135

 

[BarrySotero]

I always have a problem with Avira when I try to do a system restore. I have to uninstall Avira before I can get restore to work ( system restore won't work for me with Avira installed on Vista ). Of course after the install, parts of the the Avira comes back but it's all messed up and won't uninstall. I go into safe mode and delete all files but one. That file will not delete no matter what - even after renaming it. I just boot up and then run the Avira install software but pick "Uninstall" when given the option comes up. As it begins to uninstall I get warnings for some things but I keep going and the last file will indeed be uninstalled after a reboot. That's when I install Avira again and it runs ok.

The article above says to rename Avira folder and then going into safe mode to delete remaining file. I'll try that next time but I know the way I just described works because I've done it over a dozen times now on Vista.

 

[Rottie]

I don't understand...Avira AV is a great antivirus program. Less bloasted and very small....and it is free..yeah I am cheap!

 

[Mide]

+1 for Avira. I've never had a problem uninstalling it, but why would you need to? It's a great, free antivirus program.

 

[Griswold]

Originally posted by: frozentundra123456
I decided to get rid of it because it kept popping up a warning about a game that I had installed, which no other programs detected as malicious.

Why not report it to avira as a false positive? They will check it and adjust their definition files to fix the problem.

Concerning your problem with uninstalling avira, I cant reproduce that...

 

[frozentundra123456]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

After reading the posts, I decided to try to just boot into safe mode, rename the Avira folder, and then delete it. Surprisingly this worked.

To those of you wondering why I decided to not use Avira, I got sick of it popping up warning screens in the middle of games (and just normal computer use) over and over again for a file that I told it to ignore, and even when the real time protection was not running and even after I had tried to delete the Avira program unsuccessfully.

Avira just seemed too intrusive to me. Hopefully I am not wrong and letting a virus in, but multiple other security programs did not detect the file as a virus. If I am wrong, those of you that like Avira so much can say you told me so. (LOL)

So I decided to us the new microsoft security essentials instead.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: frozentundra123456
Thanks for all the suggestions.

After reading the posts, I decided to try to just boot into safe mode, rename the Avira folder, and then delete it. Surprisingly this worked.

To those of you wondering why I decided to not use Avira, I got sick of it popping up warning screens in the middle of games (and just normal computer use) over and over again for a file that I told it to ignore, and even when the real time protection was not running and even after I had tried to delete the Avira program unsuccessfully.

Avira just seemed too intrusive to me. Hopefully I am not wrong and letting a virus in, but multiple other security programs did not detect the file as a virus. If I am wrong, those of you that like Avira so much can say you told me so. (LOL)

So I decided to us the new microsoft security essentials instead.

The updates was an issue for me ,sometimes I had to do a manual update,anyway I'm using Avast 5 beta 2 now after trying Microsoft MSE AV,I made a thread about Avast 5 Beta 2 ,very good so far with very low memory usage.

 

[manko]

Avira has worked great for me. I occasionally get false positives like most AV software, but better safe than sorry.

If you have something you use all the time that's a definite false positive, you can submit it Avira here and the will test it:

http://analysis.avira.com/samples/index.php

When I've submitted false positive reports they were confirmed and put into the next update within a couple days.