Purpose of "kavremover"

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After uninstalling KAV using 'kavremover" I had to manually delete at least 40 registry keys and a lot of files in ? drive, see below:

So, what is the purpose of a specialized tool as long as there are so many remains behind?????

[Xzz123]

these files are not created by K

but by windows system. 

dont worry, it has no impact to your os operation.

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8 hours ago, Xzz123 said:

dont worry, it has no impact to your os operation.

I know it is no impact on OS operation, but expectation is , from a dedicated removal tool , to remove all items generated upon install of that program

[Xzz123]

3 hours ago, total said:

I know it is no impact on OS operation, but expectation is , from a dedicated removal tool , to remove all items generated upon install of that program

you better not wish that happened

because Kaspersky and other big vendor all use windows installer service to initiate an Microsoft windows standard installation or an uninstallation process. all files and changes is recorded in a *.msi (located in C:\Windows\Installer, for my K Standard 21,13 it is a 15MB msi file), using standard windows recommended practice, you can uninstall using the msi package.

that means there will be no additional and un-recorded program files or drivers introduced in your hard driver, in the whole life cycle of K product in your PC.

in normal cases it is enough to use windows control panel to clean all kaspersky program files-as I said the msi package got full record of the installation and there will be no new app function added without windows standard installer service/

in sepcial cases you may need a removal tool because the msi package is damaged. the tool also got the info of what files are written in your disk, it perform remove accordingly. 

It is never a good idea for a official tool to serach all the disk and register for any traces of there once being a kaspersky product. There will be a possibility the tool mistakenly delete critical system files or precious user data, you would not wish to encounter that catastrophe.

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I am NOT a Kaspersky employee or forum administrator, and I DO NOT represent Kaspersky Lab or the forum.

If there is any mistakes above, I am happy that a real speciallist can correct me.

 

[Xzz123]

My practice is to use tool like Geek Unintaller. you can use geek to start the uninstallation and the tool will try find some real leftover.

You can also use Autoruns form microsoft itself to search for unwanted logon object/scheduled taks/services/drivers.....