[gui-talk] Seeking Advice Re. Uninstalling Avast

[Gerald Levy]

The following web site explains how to uninstall Avast.  Note that booting 
into safe mode may be necessary:

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/276-how-to-uninstall-avast


Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'" 
<gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Seeking Advice Re. Uninstalling Avast


> Have you looked on the Avast web site for a clearing tool? Norton used to
> have one for NAV.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rob Tabor
> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 9:27 PM
> To: 'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List';
> 'Discussionlist for CAVI'
> Subject: [gui-talk] Seeking Advice Re. Uninstalling Avast
>
> Good evening all,
>
>
>
> The story begins with a notification on my wife's PC that the one year 
> free
> trial of Avast was about to expire and she asked me to step in and
> troubleshoot the situation. I decided to replace Avast with Microsoft
> Security Essentials (MSSE) because it is effective, efficient, 
> nonintrusive,
> and freee, which I view as the least important criteria. It seemed
> appropriate to uninstall avast to avoid getting false positives when
> scanning the HD for viruses and malware. However, the add/remove programs
> module in Win7 is unable to remove Avast. Now as an additional unintended
> consequence my wife is unable to send or receive email. Now for the
> questions.
>
> 1.       Does anyone advise removing Avast or let it be.
>
> 2.       In researching the matter I discovered a utility called 
> AvastClear.
> Is this utility, effective, safe to use, and accessible to JAWS 15? IF 
> not,
> does anyone commend a different and better third party application removal
> utility?
>
> 3.       Is it likely to have caused settings to be changed in Outlook, or
> is the emailproblem totally unrelated and needs a different solution?
>
>
>
> TIA and best regards,
>
> Rob "Jayhawk Bob" Tabor
>
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