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<blockquote data-quote="AlexCa" data-source="post: 892859" data-attributes="member: 52267">Just a heads up: the program &quot;only&quot; detects leftovers for the 29 antivirus programs that are listed in the combobox (so, for the AV companies that provide official dedicated uninstallers). Fortunately, the most popular ones are all there.Originally, it would detect leftovers for 54 antivirus programs. But because those others don&#039;t provide dedicated uninstallers, or because of other issues, I decided not to include them in the detections.The reason is that faced with the absence of the detected program in the &quot;Control Panel &gt; Add / Remove Programs&quot;, and faced with the absence of a dedicated uninstaller, the user would probably just try to manually delete the detected folders (generally a bad option, as explained in this <a href="https://malwaretips.com/threads/antivirus-removal-tool-the-technician-friendly-tool-to-detect-and-completely-remove-antivirus-software.102016/post-891375" target="_blank">post</a>). And if that goes wrong, a machine that otherwise is functional (if it can run Antivirus Removal tool, it implies that it can enter the OS and run programs), might start throwing errors or worst.FYI, these are the AV&#039;s whose detection I removed:BullGuard, AhnLab, Arcabit, Cezurity, Nano Antivirus, nProtect Anti-Virus, Quick Heal, SentinelOne, 360 Total Security, SUPERAntiSpyware, F-PROT, Cylance, ALYac, Baidu, Bkav, ClamAV, IKARUS, Jiangmin, Kingsoft AntiVirus, Norman, Roboscan, SPAMfighter, VirusBuster, Zillya, Tencent.[USER=2056]@dinosaur07[/USER], sorry for the long post! I took the opportunity to explain a bit further about the functionality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AlexCa, post: 892859, member: 52267"] Just a heads up: the program "only" detects leftovers for the 29 antivirus programs that are listed in the combobox (so, for the AV companies that provide official dedicated uninstallers). Fortunately, the most popular ones are all there. Originally, it would detect leftovers for 54 antivirus programs. But because those others don't provide dedicated uninstallers, or because of other issues, I decided not to include them in the detections. The reason is that faced with the absence of the detected program in the "Control Panel > Add / Remove Programs", and faced with the absence of a dedicated uninstaller, the user would probably just try to manually delete the detected folders (generally a bad option, as explained in this [URL='https://malwaretips.com/threads/antivirus-removal-tool-the-technician-friendly-tool-to-detect-and-completely-remove-antivirus-software.102016/post-891375']post[/URL]). And if that goes wrong, a machine that otherwise is functional (if it can run Antivirus Removal tool, it implies that it can enter the OS and run programs), might start throwing errors or worst. FYI, these are the AV's whose detection I removed: BullGuard, AhnLab, Arcabit, Cezurity, Nano Antivirus, nProtect Anti-Virus, Quick Heal, SentinelOne, 360 Total Security, SUPERAntiSpyware, F-PROT, Cylance, ALYac, Baidu, Bkav, ClamAV, IKARUS, Jiangmin, Kingsoft AntiVirus, Norman, Roboscan, SPAMfighter, VirusBuster, Zillya, Tencent. [USER=2056]@dinosaur07[/USER], sorry for the long post! I took the opportunity to explain a bit further about the functionality. [/QUOTE]

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