I wrote few posts (here, here and here) on removal tools that are specifically developed by software manufacturers in order to help users to remove completely applications from their computer so that they won’t have any conflicts with other applications. So here is another antivirus removal tool, AVG remover which purposely meant to remove all [...]
Windows operating system is ubiquitously used by million of users all over the world. With its growing popularity as number one operating system, it also attracts hackers who always find one way or another to get around Windows system to spread harmful viruses, worms and malwares. This poses significant threat to Microsoft’s business. As a [...]
Because of integration complexity between Windows system and most of recent applications, there are always some files or folders that are left in our PC even after performing complete uninstallation. This could lead to undesired problems like computer lock down or other applications which related to the uninstalled program stop working properly.
I wrote about [...]
Your pendrive is always vulnerable to malicious viruses and worms when it is connected to computers that don’t have any protection or on machines that have outdated virus definition. I dwelled on this issue several times and you can find several articles related to protecting pen drive from virus infection here, here and here.
Avira [...]
There is no way we could tell how good an antivirus is especially for people who know little or nothing about computer. When we are about to decide which antivirus to go for we may collect as many information as we could from magazines, websites and friend’s recommendation but their recommendations may subject to several [...]
Norton products are great when they are running on our computer but some files are not entirely removed when we try to uninstall one of its products. Norton Removal Tool is a freeware, introduced to remove completely the residual files from your computer. This free tool is also able to remove a damaged Norton product [...]
The AUTORUN.INF is a configuration file from removable drives that decides which actions to perform when a new external storage device, such as a DVD or USB drive is plugged in to the PC. Unfortunately, malwares like Heap41a take full advantage of this feature in order to spread themselves. This is achieved by copying a [...]
Occasionally, uninstalling an antivirus program using Windows Removal program is not sufficient due to system integration. We may either end up fail to uninstall them completely or in worst case, we don’t manage to uninstall a particular software at all. Because of the nature of software and system integration, most antivirus developers has come up [...]
