How Do I Remove Avast! Antivirus Quickly?

Avast Internet Security 6 has all the features of Avast Free Antivirus, plus a Silent Firewall, an antispam filter, a command-line scanner, and the new Avast SafeZone (a clean, isolated desktop, so that other applications – even keyloggers–cannot see what’s happening), designed specifically for secure online shopping or banking. Leaner and meaner version 6.0 provides even faster protection than its predecessor and offers a web-reputation browser extension as well, all combining for real-time security against known and unknown forms of malware. Avast Internet Security provides maximum protection, designed for those who shop and bank online or store sensitive data on their computers. Accurate threat updates via Avast CommunityIQ technology ensure worry-free downloading, surfing, social networking, and gaming.

 

When you have run out the trial period of the Avast Internet Security 6, you may wonder removing it or switching to other programs. Here is the first way you may go.

1. Restart your computer first.
2. While you are in the process of starting, press on the F8 button on your keyboard.
3. Select Safe Mode and then click Enter to enter Safe Mode.
4. Click your Start menu and then open Run.
5. Enter appwiz.cpl and press OK.
6. On the list, highlight Avast Internet Security 6 and then click Remove.
7. Keep on with the prompts till it requires you restart your computer.

In case this doesn’t work for you, you will have to take these extra steps.

1. Double-click “My Computer” and then “Local Disk (C  .” Open the “Program Files” folder and delete the delete the “Avast Internet Security 6″ folder from your computer.
2. Restart your computer into safe mode by continuously pressing F8 when starting it up.
3. Click on “Start” menu and choose “run”, type “services.msc” and press “Enter” to proceed.
4. When the services list appear, locate “Avast Internet Security 6 Engine” and then right click it to select “Stop” and then exit the services list.
5. Go to “Start” and “Run” again, and this time, type “regedit” to open Registry Editor.
6. Expand “HKEY_CURRENT_USER” and then “Software” folder, “Avast Internet Security” folder. Right click “TAV” and select “Delete” to delete all the entries.
7. Expand “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE”, “Software” folder and then the “Avast Internet Security” folder. Right click “PCTAV” and select “Delete,” and then right click “TAVSvc” and click “Delete.”

It’s not a good idea that you would take the risk to manually delete registry entries, for deleting registry entries by mistake will bring a disaster for you. Thus a small and inconvenient uninstaller like Perfect Uninstaller is the best choice to completely uninstall Avast Internet Security 6 other than formatting your hard drive so that you don’t have to put things back from scratch. With the powerful scan engine, Perfect Uninstaller can fully detect and forcibly uninstall all registry entries, DLL files as well as its drivers. It only needs a few clicks and takes a few minutes to completely uninstall Avast Internet Security 6 or remove Avast Internet Security of other version.