How to Uninstall Avira Antivirus - Uninstall Guide

Are you looking for effective ways to uninstall Avira Antivirus completely? Encounter difficulties when uninstalling the program? Can’t uninstall it via Windows Add or Remove Programs or its built-uninstaller? Don’t worry, please read the post carefully and follow the guide to completely uninstall it.

Problems you may encounter when uninstalling Avira Antivirus

Receiving error message dialog box when uninstalling Avira Antivirus

Cannot find the program in the list of installed programs

Cannot find the Uninstall/Remove button when uninstalling the program

Usually, you can’t normally uninstall the program with Windows Add or Remove Programs due to improper installation or some configuration information of the program have been damaged or deleted. Of course, malware or virus invasion may lead to you can’t uninstall the program.

How to Uninstall Avira Antivirus  Manually?

Step1. Terminate Avira Antivirus  program in Task Manager.

· Right-click your Taskbar, then select Task Manager/Start Task Manager from the list.

·When the window shows up, find out the target program, then click End Process button for Windows 7/Vista/XP. Click End Task button for Windows 8/10 to terminate the program.

Step2. Uninstall Avira Antivirus  via Windows built-in uninstaller.

·Click Start menu, and then select Control Panel.

·Click Uninstall a program link under Programs/Add or Remove Programs.

·Find out the program from the list of installed programs, click Uninstall/Remove to delete it.

Step3. Show hidden files, folders, and drives.

·Click Start > Control Panel >Appearance and Personalization > Folder Options >View

·Tick Show hidden files, folders, and drives, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

·Click Apply > OK button.

Step4. Delete Avira Antivirus  associated files and folders.

C:\Program Files\Avira Antivirus

C:\Document and Settings\All Users\Avira Antivirus

C:\Users\Funla\AppData\Roaming\Easeware\Avira Antivirus

Step5. Delete the entries created by Avira Antivirus  in Registry.

·Simultaneously press Windows + R keys on your keyboard.

· Type regedit into the run box and then click OK button to open Registry Editor.

·In the opened window, click Edit menu and then select Find/Find Next button.

·Type Avira Antivirus  into the dialog box and then click Find Next button.

·Delete the following entries.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\Avira Antivirus _RASAPI32

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\Avira Antivirus _RASMANCS

Warning!!!

The above step is never recommended to computer novices or inexperienced computer users. Any wrong step may cause serious system problems. Therefore, for the sake of computer safety, it is strongly recommended using an automatic uninstall tool to completely clean all the registry entries created by Avira Antivirus .