Kaspersky Remover Tools
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I heard and read a lot good reviews of Kaspersky, so then i decides to give a shot free trails of Kaspersky and see how it work. After installing and using Kaspersky, i decide to give up on this software because won't connect to the server which is PlanetSide 2 from Sony Online Entertainment. My previous antivirus/antimalware which is Emsisoft did not do this.
So the question how am i fully uninstall Kaspersky Internet Security 2015? I feels regret of uninstall Emsisoft, now i just want to go back to Emsisoft! Well, uninstall antivirus/internet security from program/feature will left tons of stuff behind such as drivers,files,and some cache folders. In order to make sure everything is gone and avoid any issue later on, you have to use antivirus vendor uninstall tool to fully uninstall what's left behind. That's what i try to said on the 1st link you give it to me, but thanks for the 2nd link i was able to download and run kaspersky removal product tool after i ran program/feature uninstall method. Also, i don't feel like making any support account too lazy for that, as long malwarebytes forum exist, i don't have to worry anything else ^-^.
Well, uninstall antivirus/internet security from program/feature will left tons of stuff behind such as drivers,files,and some cache folders. In order to make sure everything is gone and avoid any issue later on, you have to use antivirus vendor uninstall tool to fully uninstall what's left behind. This isn't supposed to happen to be honest. If you have a good installation, that isn't damaged or corrupt, the standard uninstall via the Control Panel will remove any traces from Kaspersky on your system. The only thing that it'll keep on it by default (unless you opt it out) is the Licence Information.
This way, if you reinstall a Kaspersky product, it'll automatically activate itself taking the information stored on the system if you still have a valid licence for the product. I've been a Kaspersky user for many years (5+) and I uninstalled the product a bunch of time (OS upgrade, software upgrade, etc.) and not a single time I had to use their uninstaller. If a standard uninstall actually leave drivers behind, then the uninstall didn't go well.
Kaspersky Removal Tools
As for files and folders, I can understand that it might leave a folder named Kaspersky with nothing on it, or a couple of log files (if you didn't opt them out) but they are practically harmless and won't cause any issues on your system. Hi: I am just a home user, not a computer expert. But I have found over the years that many AVs leave behind traces/remnants/leftovers. These leftovers sometimes can interfere with other security applications on some systems.
That's why many AV software vendors provide removal tools. McAfee is just one notable/notorious example.
As far as KL products, while it may not be always strictly necessary to run the removal tool, doing so helps to ensure a clean removal and can reduce the chance of conflicts with other security software. This can be useful when the user wishes to cleanly upgrade KIS/KAV/PURE/KTS versions, or to fully remove the software from the system. I have always used that 'best practice' method with excellent results. KL in fact publishes the following article: and there is a link in the advising users to run the removal tool.
This would be akin to running mbam-clean when uninstalling or cleanly reinstalling MBAM. From my perspective as a home user, there's certainly no harm in using the removal tool for a truly clean uninstall. It is a rare event that most programs out there do not leave behind unwanted crud. In order to remove every bit of information would require a better uninstaller to be designed by the manufacturer of the software.
And this translates into folding green stuff. A program that i use often (and not to hawk a single product) is revo uninstaller (the older version is absolutely free). Under no circumstance should one use any of those 'let us clean and tune up yer PC' programs. 95% of these programs are bogus and attempt to install some kind of crap/malware.