AppRemover (v.1.5.0.9): Software for completely uninstalling antivirus and ant-spyware programs

AppRemover is a useful freeware tool (with advertisement) that lets you remove security programs like antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall thoroughly from your computer. Because of the strong integration with system, security programs are often difficult to remove completely. In such situations you can try this tool.

AppRemover is helpful in the following situations: when the built-in uninstall process of security program’s fails, when you have forgotten the application password for uninstalling (Norton, Rising, etc) and when you replacing one security program with another.

Even though some of the security companies has also releases special uninstaller for their product, this tool has its own advantages. It is very simple to use, no installation required and is able to remove almost all security programs thoroughly from your computer.

Following are some of the security programs that ApRemover can uninstall: Panda, Avira, AVG, Karspersky, McAfee, Norman, Norton, Spyware Doctor, etc. AppRemover is compatible with Windows 2000, 2003, XP (32 / 64 bit), Vista (32 / 64 bit) and Windows 2008 and beta 7. You can download the latest version from here.

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