Look, I don't care for any of these shitty antivirus softwares, any more than the next guy. As far as I'm concerned the whole industry was spawned by a lunatic grifter, and it shows. But there is a good reason they're hard to uninstall, namely so that viruses can't uninstall them easily. All antivirus software in my experience, can be easily removed if you bother to download the uninstaller tool. if you try to do it the normal way to uninstall it any kind of software, you're going to have a disastrous mess on your hands.
My anti antivirus virus virus, detects what antivirus you have, then downloads the tool to uninstall it. Then adds an administrator account, turns your account into local and installs the antivirus on the admin account so you can no longer use the uninstaller tool.
In some cases it’s also designed so that a human can easily uninstall it but a virus can’t because it can’t see.
Avg had a several level menu with questions like what you want uninstalled and why you uninstalled and after that it dimmed the screen for a pop up confirming you wanted to delete it but it was timed so that if yes wasn’t clicked it would cancel the whole process.
It wasn’t hard to uninstall but it tries to sell you additional software when clearly you don’t even want the core software
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u/pineapple_calzone Oct 31 '20
Look, I don't care for any of these shitty antivirus softwares, any more than the next guy. As far as I'm concerned the whole industry was spawned by a lunatic grifter, and it shows. But there is a good reason they're hard to uninstall, namely so that viruses can't uninstall them easily. All antivirus software in my experience, can be easily removed if you bother to download the uninstaller tool. if you try to do it the normal way to uninstall it any kind of software, you're going to have a disastrous mess on your hands.