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Lionel Beck
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After reading an article in "Ask Woody" I downloaded (from oldergeeks.com) a program called Antivirus_Removal_Tool.exe which is designed to seek out & remove 'detritus' or remnants of old antivirus programs lurking on the PC. I ran it and it didn't find anything untoward, so I decided to uninstall it. I couldn't because it didn't appear in my list of installed apps/programs. So I tried a straight deletion. The icon disappeared from my Desktop but five minutes later popped up again, this time as a plain white rectangle. minutes later popped up again, this time as a plain white rectangle.
(See part of my Desktop above). Every attempt to delete it, or even hide it in another folder met with the message that I didn't have permission. I tried running it as Administrator, but it would no longer run. So I'm stuck with this annoying icon that does nothing. I asked oldergeeks.com about it and I got this advice back .. "It's a portable program. You just delete the folder you unzipped it to. Nothing was installed on your computer. You can't just delete the zipped file you downloaded, you have to delete where you unzipped it."
Well, I had unzipped it direct to the Desktop. Am I supposed to delete the Desktop? Is there any way I can get rid of this thing? Whatever is left of it is still about 1 Mb.
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(See part of my Desktop above). Every attempt to delete it, or even hide it in another folder met with the message that I didn't have permission. I tried running it as Administrator, but it would no longer run. So I'm stuck with this annoying icon that does nothing. I asked oldergeeks.com about it and I got this advice back .. "It's a portable program. You just delete the folder you unzipped it to. Nothing was installed on your computer. You can't just delete the zipped file you downloaded, you have to delete where you unzipped it."
Well, I had unzipped it direct to the Desktop. Am I supposed to delete the Desktop? Is there any way I can get rid of this thing? Whatever is left of it is still about 1 Mb.
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