How to Remove Antivirus from Your Computer

One way of keeping your computer secure is protecting it from malwares. A malware is any malicious code that infects your computer and cause it to perform tasks, usually harmful tasks, which you did not intend it to perform. One type of malware that commonly plagues computers are viruses.

A computer virus is a program that is designed to interfere with the operations and functions of your computer. It is usually transmitted from one computer to another.

One particular business that is known for being air conditioning experts in Brisbane that currently use computer software to monitor and manage their past installations said that from their bad experience : “When the virus enters your computer system, it can corrupt or delete your files, hack your email and spread itself through the internet and other computers, or worse, wipe your hard disk clean along with all programs in it.”

Hence, it is important to have an antivirus installed. However, there are instances that when you buy a computer there is already an antivirus trial pre-installed. This may be great but when it is not what you prefer, you can just uninstall it.

This may also be the case if you installed a program but requires the installation of an antivirus to also start the program’s installation process. You can go through with the installation, and uninstall the antivirus afterwards. However, be careful with this because there are some antivirus software bundled with another program that turn out to be not an antivirus software at all and may cause problems.

There are several methods on how to remove antivirus software. These methods are as follows:

Through the Start Menu

Go the ‘Start Menu’ and click ‘All Programs’. Find the name of the antivirus software that you want to remove, then right-click. A …

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