How do you uninstall Personal Antivirus??

Discussion in 'Software' started by shanmugam83, Dec 6, 2009.

  1. shanmugam83

    shanmugam83 Private E-2

    I accidentally install the personal antivirus thinking that it was from my real virus protection and instead installed this mess of a program that's totally ruining my computer. It won't give me the option of uninstalling it either. I have looked at websites trying to get rid of it and I just keep getting the same one and it doesn't help at all. Does anyone know what I can do? My mom is going to be pissed when all these pop ups about viruses that don't even exist keep popping up 24/7. And, it won't let me on a bunch of websites either. Ahh! Help please, asap!!!!!! Thanks!!!
     
  2. rustyjack

    rustyjack MajorGeek

  3. shanmugam83

    shanmugam83 Private E-2

    Okie , thanks
     
  4. Imperfect1

    Imperfect1 Private First Class

    If you can't uninstall this program through Programs and Features, go into your C drive to manually search for the program, and if you find any program files, manually delete them. (If the system doesn't let you delete the whole folder at one time, it may very well allow you to delete each file at a time. Or, you can sometimes fool the system by renaming the files and then deleting them.)

    Then, when you've done all you can do manually, do an Advanced Search for any remaining program files, and delete them that way. (For some reason, the system seems to be more forgiving about deleting files this way, then uninstalling them.)

    To get to Advanced Search, press the Windows key on your keyboard + F (or go into the Start Menu, and from inside the Search Pane, press F3).
    That brings up the Search page - click the Advanced Search button to the far top-right, to open the Advanced Search Set Up page.
    On the Set-Up page, check the 'Include non-indexed, hidden, and system files' option.

    Under Location, select Computer, or Everywhere, and in the Name box, fill in the name of the program or file you’re looking for, or some text from within the file. Click on the Search button, and if any associated files come up, just delete them.

    After this first search is completed, to make sure there aren't still any remaining files lurking, do additional searches for any other key words you think might be associated with that program or file – like, for example, the name of the publisher. The searches could take 20 seconds or 20 minutes, depending on how many files/folders there are to go through, but eventually, every file related to that program should be off your system.

    PS: A word of caution: Occasionally, some of the files that will come up in the search may NOT be associated with the application you're trying to delete. If you're not sure, don't delete those files, because you might be deleting something integral to another file or application. You have to be very careful! However, if you do delete something by accident, fortunately, you can always recover it from the Recycle Bin when you catch your mistake.
     
  5. sikvik

    sikvik Corporal Karma

    Nope, you don't. One goes through the "read and run" and post the requisite logs, as already mentioned in post#3

    Cheers
     

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