How to uninstall Trend Micro anti virus program

16 years ago

A few weeks ago I let my Trend Micro program lapse. Among the many messages they sent to me pleading with me to renew was one that gave the instructions (complicated) on how to uninstall prior to installing the newer version. I thought I had saved that, but lost it. I wondered why simply using "add/remove" programs would not work.

I haven't tried anything yet including "add/remove". How would I know if it in fact worked?

What's the best was to uninstall Trend Micro? I plan to then install Microsoft's free Security Essential which seems to have good reviews on this forum. Thanks.

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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
add remove never removes all of the large antivirus suites, you can use their specific removal tool, I would try that first following the directions on their site, or if problems are encountered you can use the free REVO uninstaller which does a nice job.
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Bob_B
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16 years ago
I attempted to remove Trend Micro per instructions of Ravencajun. It was a most complicated process and I finally gave up on it when I "unzipped" 22 folders half a dozen times and the same unzip box reappeared.

Finally, I cancelled all of this incomprehensible stuff and went to the simple "add/remove" option that is part of my Windows program. I clicked on "remove", and it indicated I had about 70mb of Trend Micro stuff, and asked was I sure I wanted to remove. Yes, of course. The green progress bar (made up of little squares) ran in its box for ahile, I was asked to reboot, and it seemed like that was the end.

I rebooted and looked in my files for traces of Trend Micro, and could only find a few titles with 0kb content. I deleted these titles. The Trend Micro icons are gone.

Am I rid of it? Seems like I am. How to check?

RB
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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
unzipped? sorry I do not see in any of the directions a zipped uninstall file?? where are you getting the zipped file at?

it is highly unlikely you are rid of it, that is why trend micro creates the uninstall tools.
which version do you have? I provided the instructions for most of the versions with their respective removal tool.

this link from Corrine's blog list the various removal tools and how to go about it and Trend Micro is listed, maybe that will help.
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Bob_B
Original Author
16 years ago
I should have mentioned that I got the uninstall tool from the list of options Ravencajun provided in the first response to my original post.

I started following the instruction of the uninstall tool which led me to "unzipping" my Trend Micro files. I did. There followed some other instructions which left me puzzled. It was then that I went through the simple "add/remove" option Windows provides.

The "antivirus removal tools" suggested above from Corrine's blog is where I went to get the tool.

RB

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