Uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus - AVG Uninstall Review

Have you encountered the error message “Out of Memory” while you tried to get ClamWin Free Antivirus installed on your Windows 7 Home Premium/Professional? Or you had received a list of error messages, “../libclamav/.libs/libclamav.so: undefined reference to ‘egzdopen’/'euncompress’/'einflateEnd’/(more)? And you have been annoyed with other error(s) related with ClamWin Virus Definition Database?”

For the “Memory” issue, it’s recommended that you carefully read the following detailed information on its system requirements; moreover you should add or increase more more new RAM (random access memory) to your Windows 7 PC. For the “libclamav.so” error list, please ensure that you’ve downloaded the OFFICIAL installation package and you’d better download the live or final version of ClamAV for your Linux machine or server. And for problems related with CWA virus scan, you may try to manually remove the old data saved in the virus definitions folder; and then run the “Starts Internet Update” option for your ClamWin Free Antivirus. What’s more, for other end-users, you should launch the following options to uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus on your PC and reinstall it later. And if you cannot uninstall the ClamWin by employing the standard method, please install and run the following recommended uninstaller Pro to forcibly remove it.

The following content will help you better uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus…

To archive a clean un-install of ClamWin, you may need to review the programmatic install of it:

Title: Setup – ClamWin Free Antivirus
Info: Install the Ask Toolbar For Internet Explorer and Firefox

Details: The Ask Toolbar makes Web browsing more convenient
(Benefit 1:) Search the Web anytime
(Benefit 2:) Keep up to date on news, weather, and sports
(Benefit 3:) Use convenient tools to enhance your browsing
Option #1: Install the Ask Toolbar (NOTE To completely uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus, you also uninstall this potentially unwanted toolbar and reset your installed web tools later – See the "Option 2" below)
Option #2: Make Ask my browser default search provider
Additional information: By installing the Ask Toolbar you agree to the End User License Agreement and the Privacy Policy.

TIP If you cannot resolve any problems with removing Ask Toolbar yourself and you wanna completely uninstall the unwanted ClamWin Free Antivirus, please read or refer to this article “How Can You Manually Uninstall Ask Toolbar?”

Method One: Remove or uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus running its built-in uninstaller

Now you should save and close all of your personal files and other running programs. Click on the Start menu on left bottom of Desktop > click All Programs or Programs.

Select ClamWin Antivrus file folder entry on that program list; run the Uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus application; to prevent any unexpected error, please use your local administrator account on (Windows) machine.

Select Yes option from User Account Control (to let Windows run unins000.exe to automatically uninstall your unneeded ClamWin Free Antivirus – Where is it? How can you find it? Then please continue reading so that you can find and run this application to uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus on your machine.

Choose Yes from ClamWin Free Antivirus Uninstall to have this supplied uninstaller uninstall the free antivirus by ClamWin from your computer, "Are you sure you want to completely remove ClamWin Free Antivirus and all of its components?".

Wait for seconds while ClamWin Free Antivirus Uninstall is performing your operation; then you check and save everything you’re still running, select Yes option from it, “To complete the uninstallation of ClamWin Free Antivirus, your computer must be restarted. Would you like to restart now?”

Method Two: Remove or uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus launching Windows’ default uninstaller

To do so, please visit Control Panel from Start menu.
From Control Panel, you click on the Uninstall a program under the Programs link; or the Add or Remove Programs.

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Then you will see ClamWin Free Antivirus listed. See the below screenshot and related info:

Help link/Update information/Support link: http://www.clamwin[dot]com/
Publisher: alch

NOTE If you have other issues on how to use or uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus, you may pay a visit to its official site for more support.

For Win8, Win7 or Windows Vista users, you could run the ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.97.3 project on the list to automatically uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus and then, you click Yes button on the ClamWin Free Antivirus Uninstall window.

Method Three: Uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus using its uninstaller application (unins000.exe)

Note You can use the following option to uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus only when you cannot find your previously installed ClamWin is missing in programs list.

Click Start button in Task, then you right-click on (ClamWin) Virus Scanner program on the menu.
Click Open File Location tab on Virus Scanner Properties – Shortcut.

Select ClamWin file folder in Address Bar.

You can directly run the unins000 beneath the bin file foler. Read more details about the uninstall utility to help you uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus better.

Type of file: Application (.exe)
Description: Setup/Uninstall
Size: 669 KB (685,913 bytes)
Size on disk: 672 KB (688,128 bytes)
File version: 51.47.0.0
Product name: Inno Setup
Product version: 0.0.0.0
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1997-2007 Jordan Russell. Portions Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Martijn Laan.
Language: English (United States)

Again, you need to choose Yes on Windows UAC. Repeat and/or review related steps in Method One/Two above to remove or uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus software manually.

To cleanly uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus, you have additions things to do…

To fully uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus, please remember to remove Ask Toolbar and restore related settings for your Web browser(s) installed. Now, you start the following actions to entirely uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus:

Run Windows Internet Explorer (version 9 or v8/6)

Right-click on any blank area on IE, cancel Ask Toolbar option for it. Select Disable option from Disable add-on info window, “Do you want to disable this add-on? Ask Toolbar (Ask.com) Total load time: 0.00 seconds. To turn on this toolbar again, click the Tools button and use the Toolbars menu.”.

Tip For IE 8/6 users, you may also select Internet Options in Settings > click Settings in Search section to totally uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus.

Now, please select Remove option for Ask Search listed in Search Providers.

Enter Toolbars and Extensions, select Disable option for items related with Ask.com: Ask Toolbar. Click Close on Manage Add-ons

To make you uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus successfully, please re-run your version of IE again to check out the modifications you made to your IE.

Open Mozilla Firefox

Similarly, right-click on Firefox, disable Ask Toolbar from it to fully uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus.

Remove Ask.com from Firefox Manage Search Engine List

Tip Locate Ask.com item on Manage Search Engines List, click Remove tab on right pane. Click OK button on Manage Search Engines List to close it properly.

Launch the Remove option for Ask Toolbar 3.9.1.14019 add that still installed in Firefox.

Re-run your Firefox by clicking Restart now link in Add-on Manager; then check the modifications made to it

If you just could not find items related with Ask.com mentioned above, you can refer to my video guide which has details some more tips are as following to thoroughly uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus; furthermore, for more common Windows end-users, it’s kindly RECOMMENDED that you download and install this best uninstall tool to effectively & safely remove associated installation information stored in Register Editor, including other leftover files remained on your hard drives:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Compatibility Assistant\Persisted, C:\Program Files\ClamWin\unins000.exe – 1; C:\Users\Bryan\Desktop\clamwin-0.97.3-setup.exe – 1;
~~HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1268191406-2149036373-4007080809-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Compatibility Assistant\Persisted~~
~~HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D4027C7F-154A-4066-A1AD-4243D8127440}~~
~~HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\GenericAskToolbar.ToolbarWnd.1~~
~~HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\A28B4D68DEBAA244EB686953B7074FEF, ProductName – Ask Toolbar~~
…

Frequently Asked Questions about ClamWin Free Antivirus Product

How to automatically upgrade my ClamWin Free Antivirus software to detect and remove the newly-released malware?

You could directly run the Virus Scanner on Programs list using a system administrator account

Click Yes on ClamWin Free Antivirus, “Virus signature database is older than 5 days and may not offer the latest protection. Would you like to update it now?”

Please wait while ClamWin Free Antivirus automatically downloads the updates, “ClamAV update process started at Mon Jul 02 18:18:50 2012. main cvd is up to date (version:54, sigs: 1044387, f-level:60, builder: sven) …”

Click Close on ClamWin Free Antivirus: Download Complete.

Moreover, you deselect option “Do Not Check for Updates in Future” for ClamWin Update window, then you click Download button on it, “An update of ClamWin Free Antivirus has been released. Please click Download button and download the latest version of 0.97.4. After you download the latest version setup file simply run it and install over the existing List Of Changes in Version 0.97.4: 1. Improved Macrovirus detection. 2. Various performance improvements.” Click on the Download Now Upgrade to 0.97.4; 0.2MB button on webpage “Download ClamWin Free Antivirus Antivirus Update for Microsoft Windows”

Note You click on the Save File button on Opening clamwin-update-0.97.3-0.97.4.exe to save the update for ClamWin Free Antivirus; run the application as admin later on (click Yes on UAC > click Next > button on ClamWin Free Antivirus Antivirus Updater, “This setup will follow you while updating ClamWin to the latest version available…” > click I Agree, “Please review the license terms before installing ClamWin Free Antivirus Update. Press Page Down to see the rest of the agreement.” > “Please wait while ClamWin Free Antivirus Antivirus Update is being installed. Closing ClamWin and ClamTray…” > click Close on Updater.)

Or… you can also run the Download Virus Database Update in Tools menu, “… daily. cvd is up to date (version: 15105, sigs: 224829, f-level: 63, builder: guitar). bytecode.cld is up to date (version: 185, sigs: 39, f-level: 63, builder: neo). Completed”. For more related tips, read “How to customize ClamWin Free Antivirus’s settings?” section below

To get the detailed info on the current version of ClamWin Free Antivirus, you click Help > About, then you will read the below information:

Version: 0.97.4
Website: http: www[dot]clamwin[dot]com
Details: ClamAV 0.97.4. Protecting from 1269216 Viruses. Virus DB Version: (main: 54; daily: 15105. Updated: 09:02 02 Jul 2012)
Author: alch, Gianluigi Tiesi
Copyright: Copyright ClamWin Pty Ltd (c) Portions Copyright SourceFire Inc. ClamWin is not affiliated with ClamAV or SourceFire Inc.
Additional Info: This program is free.

How to customize ClamWin Free Antivirus’s settings?

Click Tools > Preferences

By default, the option “Display Infected Files Only”, “Scan in Subdirectories” and “Display File Scanned % Progress Indicator” have been applied for Scanning Options in General; and the “Upload Infected Programs from Computer Memory” has been applied too. You could apply option “Move To Quarantine Folder” for Infected Files section.

To speed up the Anti-Virus scanning, you can manually edit the items listed Filters, “Specify Filename Patterns to include and/or exclude in scanning (To specify a regular expression include your pattern within Exclude Matching Filenames or Scan Only Matching Filenames)”. You can also manually set up the options for All Files, and Archives for limits part. See the details below

All Files

Do Nor Scan Files Larger xxx MegaBytes

Archives
Additional option: Extract Files from Archives (Not recommended)

Do Not Extract More Than xxx MegaBytes
Do Not Extract More Than xxx Files
Do Not Extract More Than xxx Sub-Archives

To automatically upgrade ClamWin Free Antivirus software, please select the following options for Internet Updates: “Enable Automatic Virus Database Updates” (Note: You can manually change the download site/Server listed; the Time or Date), “Warn if Virus database is Out of Date”, “Update Virus Database On Logon” (Note: it may lessen your Windows PC’s performance.), and “Notify About New ClamWin Releases (No personal information is transmitted during this check)”

To view, delete the “Scan Report File” and/or “Virus Database Update Report File” (*.txt files type saved, i.e., in “ProgramData” file folder), you visit Reports tab, click on the .. button behind it. Apply “Display Pop-up Notification Messages In Taskbar” for Reports.

To protect your PC from threats attached in E-mail message(s), it’s recommended you enabling the below options for Email Scanning – Microsoft Outlook: “Scan Incoming/Outgoing Email Messages”, “Display Splash Screen on Startup”. For advanced users, you can disable option “Extract Attachments and Macros from MS Office Documents” for Advanced tab. Fill the specified information of file path in “Additional Clamscan Command Line Parameters:” item; and manually modify the options for Scanner Priority

Final Part: In case that you wanna completely remove or uninstall ClamWin Free Antivirus for the newer or lower version of it, or test/install another top virus protection, like AVG, Norton and more, it’s recommended you completely remove the current version of it on your Windows. See or review the installation error related with ClamWin Free Antivirus below. Moreover, you are advised to watch or review my YouTube video guide, and run the perfect uninstall tool to safely & effectively clean the traces of those installed programs in your system.

Note The Setup warned that “Setup detected that newer version of the software is already installed. Setup will terminate now.”

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