In reply to a post by E7er:

Hi, to remove Kaspersky you will need to use their removel tool.....

Rubbish!

In reply to a post by Deadbeat:

In reply to a post by E7er:

Hi, to remove Kaspersky you will need to use their removel tool.....

Rubbish!

In reference to support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208279463:

Some errors might occur when deleting Kaspersky Lab products via Start > Control Panel > Add\Remove Programs. As a result the application may not uninstall correctly or remnants of the application may remain in the system.

Removal utility enables complete uninstall of the following products:

Kaspersky Small Office Security 2 for Personal Computer / for File Server
Kaspersky PURE / PURE R2
Kaspersky Anti-Virus (all versions)
Kaspersky Internet Security (all versions)
Kaspersky Password Manager (all versions)
AVP Tool driver

Thankyou, I managed to remove Kaspersky quite easily and installed Comodo and Avast from the links I was kindly given earlier in the thread.

It's been fine till this evening when out of the blue Avast suddenly decided that all my usual websites - mumsnet, twitter, white goods forum (?!) were dangerous and blocked them one by one. I restarted the computer, it was still doing it so have uninstalled it.

Unless it's a particularly weird virus I think Avast is playing up. So I think I'll try the other one - avira or AVG, was it, can't remember now but wqill look at the replies and download something. Thanks again for your help.

Sue

I had exactly the same problem with Avast last night, blocking my usual websites. It had just been updated and in the end I disabled web shield for 10 minutes.

This morning however, it's working normally having been switched off all night.

Thankyou, glad it wasn't just me - I uninstalled it then reinstalled it and seems to be Ok this morning. I wish they wouldn't do that! I was really panicking : ) will know better next time.

In my case it was two computer forums, not this one I might add! One was blocked completely and the other I could access but the Avast warning referred to a 'Facebook plugin'.

I have been using the free version of Avast for several years now on different PCs and never had that particular problem before. It has also been known to block real threats

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

In reply to a post by Deadbeat:

In reply to a post by E7er:

Hi, to remove Kaspersky you will need to use their removel tool.....

Rubbish!

In reference to support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208279463:

Some errors might occur......

Some errors might occur while removing anything that you care to name. I've installed/uninstalled most Kaspersky products perhaps hundreds of times and never had to use any extra software.

In reply to a post by Deadbeat:

Some errors might occur while removing anything that you care to name. I've installed/uninstalled most Kaspersky products perhaps hundreds of times and never had to use any extra software.

I can't speak for Kaspersky because I've never used it, but as a rule I find that companies don't go to all the trouble and expense of writing specific un-install routines without good reason.

As I said, after maybe hundreds of installations/uninstallations, I've never needed to use any extra software.

GFI Vipre is still my antimalware product of choice - everyone I have recommended it to has been extremely pleased and commented how much faster their system runs.