Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) Antivirus Toolkit developed for UNIX, and has versions available for third-AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, OpenVMS, OSF, Solaris and Mac OS X. This program can detect different types of malicious code including viruses. It is designed especially for email scanning on mail gateways. But, it happens for a reason, you must uninstall the May Clam AntiVirus, and do a manual clean is ClamAVdifficult.

A few weeks ago, I tried to update my ClamAV to the new version, but I failed. So I decided to uninstall it and implement the latest. After that I went to Add / Remove Programs on the Start menu and uninstalled this antivirus, I found in my Temp folder Clam AntiVirus leaves many temporary files. ClamWin is not clean the files in the Temp directory when you unpack an archive file, which is a control virus. You must therefore remove allWhen you uninstall your antivirus program.

You can remove them manually, and here are the instructions:

The types of files left in the TEMP directory. The names are different, but they are always equal. The folders contain files left. So you can imagine, this additional space-wise in time.

Directory: clamav-0585b8952d374a7ddcc0a551ff27e423.fff63b03.clamtmp

Directory: clamav-ad6d970ba9f3b1e7b534a733bbc2c6c7.fff63b03.clamtmp

File: ClamWin_Upadte_Time

File: ClamWin1.log

File: ClamWin2.log

File: ClamWin3.log

Of course, if you have no collateral to completely uninstall ClamAV using the method described above, you can try another way. A good tool to automate the removal also can help to eliminate this virus in seconds without hassle.

It really is a great tool for oppression that can help you to completely uninstall and remove Clam> Anti-virus with great success and ensure that all the dead registry entries and associated files are deleted automatically within a few clicks. Outside of this software can also completely remove the other programs that Authentium, Kaspersky, Trend Micro Antivirus, Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office and similar applications.

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