Advice Request Has anyone used the ESET AV Remover Tool

[blackice]

Hey everybody. Just looking at different options concerning AV removal out of curiosity. Has anyone used the ESET AV Remover tool? How does it compare to something like Revo?

Link: ESET AV Remover—List of removable applications and instructions to run the tool

 

[blackice]

Seems that no one has used this. May give it a try just to see how it does.

 

[roger_m]

I use it and it seems to work fine. I say "seems to," because I've never actually manually checked to see if every single trace gets removed. But I presume it would remove everything.

Revo does not do a good job of removing antivirus leftovers. Often there will be drivers remaining when you uninstall an antivirus. Revo and other uninstallers won't find these leftover drivers, because they are in the \Windows\System32\Drivers folder and not the folder where the antivirus was installed.

The only exception to this, is if you are using the Pro version of Revo to create snapshots (or another uninstaller which creates snapshots) before and after installing the antivirus, so that it has a record of every file and registry key that is created by the antivirus.

 

[blackice]

I use it and it seems to work fine. I say "seems to," because I've never actually manually checked to see if every single trace gets removed. But I presume it would remove everything.

Revo does not do a good job of removing antivirus leftovers. Often there will be drivers remaining when you uninstall an antivirus. Revo and other uninstallers won't find these leftover drivers, because they are in the \Windows\System32\Drivers folder and not the folder where the antivirus was installed.

The only exception to this, is if you are using the Pro version of Revo to create snapshots (or another uninstaller which creates snapshots) before and after installing the antivirus, so that it has a record of every file and registry key that is created by the antivirus.

Unfortunately that would have required the user (me) to have Revo Pro in the first place. If I need to I can re-image, but I thought maybe the ESET uninstaller could save people that step...if it worked. Always good to get your opinion on software as I may know of no better tester.

 

[roger_m]

@blackice Just running the removal tool should be fine.

 

[blackice]

@blackice Just running the removal tool should be all fine.

Thanks, always glad for you help.