avast! Antivirus

A way to uninstall avast! Antivirus from your system

avast! Antivirus is a Windows application. Read below about how to uninstall it from your computer. It is made by Alwil Software. You can read more on Alwil Software or check for application updates here. Please follow http://www.avast.com if you want to read more on avast! Antivirus on Alwil Software's website. avast! Antivirus's complete uninstall command line is rundll32. ashAvast.exe is the programs's main file and it takes circa 288.05 KB (294960 bytes) on disk.

avast! Antivirus contains of the executables below. They take 2.17 MB (2276688 bytes) on disk.

• ashAvast.exe (288.05 KB)
• ashBug.exe (144.00 KB)
• ashChest.exe (60.00 KB)
• ashDisp.exe (96.05 KB)
• ashLogV.exe (52.00 KB)
• ashMaiSv.exe (232.05 KB)
• ashPopWz.exe (192.00 KB)
• ashQuick.exe (264.00 KB)
• ashServ.exe (88.05 KB)
• ashSimp2.exe (148.05 KB)
• ashSimpl.exe (172.05 KB)
• ashSkPcc.exe (17.50 KB)
• ashSkPck.exe (60.00 KB)
• ashWebSv.exe (328.05 KB)
• aswRegSvr.exe (21.50 KB)
• aswUpdSv.exe (52.00 KB)
• copyx64.exe (2.50 KB)
• sched.exe (5.50 KB)

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This info is about avast! Antivirus version 4.6 only. You can find here a few links to other avast! Antivirus versions:

• 4.1
• 4.8
• 4.0
• 4.7
• 4.5

avast! Antivirus has the habit of leaving behind some leftovers.

You will find in the Windows Registry that the following data will not be cleaned; remove them one by one using regedit.exe:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\avast!

How to delete avast! Antivirus from your PC with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

avast! Antivirus is an application offered by the software company Alwil Software. Frequently, users want to erase this application. Sometimes this is difficult because uninstalling this by hand requires some know-how regarding PCs. One of the best QUICK practice to erase avast! Antivirus is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your system, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very efficient uninstaller and general utility to take care of your system.

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• go to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to get familiar with Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful PC management program.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs button


5. All the applications existing on the PC will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you locate avast! Antivirus or simply activate the Search field and type in "avast! Antivirus". The avast! Antivirus program will be found very quickly. When you select avast! Antivirus in the list , some information regarding the program is available to you:

• Safety rating (in the left lower corner). This explains the opinion other people have regarding avast! Antivirus, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Technical information regarding the program you are about to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for avast! Antivirus:

• The web site of the program is: http://www.avast.com
• The uninstall string is: rundll32

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will come up. Confirm the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove avast! Antivirus.


8. After uninstalling avast! Antivirus, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of avast! Antivirus which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By removing avast! Antivirus with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your system.

Your PC will remain clean, speedy and able to run without errors or problems.

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Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to remove avast! Antivirus by Alwil Software from your PC, nor are we saying that avast! Antivirus by Alwil Software is not a good application for your PC. This page only contains detailed info on how to remove avast! Antivirus supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.