Trojan Remover

Trojan or trojan horse is software that appears to perform a desirable function for the user prior to run or install, but (perhaps in addition to the expected function) steals information or harms the system. Once a Trojan horse has been installed on a target computer system, a hacker may have access to the computer remotely and perform various operations, limited by user privileges on the target computer system and the design of the Trojan horse. 

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Uninstalling an Anti-virus using removal tools:

REMOVAL TOOLS:

Any anti-virus has got some settings and files installed on different folders in computer. So today we will learn how to uninstall an anti-virus using different uninstalling utilities for different companies. Before we look into it we will need to know why we need to use the utilities to uninstall them using utilities.

Reason why we need to uninstall Anti-virus using tools is to make sure that there are no left over files in registry which cause some problems when we install another anti-virus. If there are more than one anti-virus on the system they will give raise to conflicts among themselves and none of them work.

So to protect our PC from infections and to have a clean one and only one security application we need to use the removal tools to uninstall them.

Names of few tools to uninstall different security programs:

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  Norton removal tool
• McAfee consumer product removal tool
• Avast uninstall utility
• Removal tool for Kaspersky products
• Avg remover
• Bit defender uninstall tool

These removal tools will help us in removing the anti-virus that we have installed completely from the computer that will help in installing any other anti-virus programs without any problem.

These are operating system independent. That means they work in XP, vista as well as in win7. Sometimes we need to remove the toolbars that we get along with these full programs. For eg. Panda Anti-Virus Firewall 2010 uninstall tool. Norton Online family, Norton online back and so on these have to be uninstalled separately from either add or remove programs or using concerned removal tools.

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