Ad-Aware Antivirus by Ad-Aware

What is Ad-Aware Antivirus?

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Overview

How do I clean Ad-Aware Antivirus?

Ad-Aware Antivirus may store excess, temporary data on your computer that can take up valuable space. It may also store private data such as passwords or browsing history in the registry or on the file system. The easiest way to erase this data is by downloading AppCleaner, it is 100% free and about 1MB in size. A portable version is also available.

Clean Ad-Aware Antivirus
with AppCleaner

If you want to clean Ad-Aware Antivirus manually, you can follow the steps outlined below. There are nine locations in the file system where Ad-Aware Antivirus stores data that can be cleaned.

Files

To clean your file system from files stored by Ad-Aware Antivirus and to gain free disk space, examine the following file system locations. First of all, open a command prompt window:

• Hit the Windows key , usually located in the lower left of your keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys.
• Windows XP/Vista/7: Click Run...
• Type cmd
• Hit Enter

Now list all the files stored by Ad-Aware Antivirus that can be cleaned:

1. Type dir /s %APPDATA%/Ad-Aware Antivirus/Logs/*
2. Type dir /s %ALLUSERSPROFILE%/Ad-Aware Antivirus/Logs/*
   • Windows XP: Type dir /s %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data/Ad-Aware Antivirus/Logs/*
3. Type dir /s %ALLUSERSPROFILE%/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/Events/*
   • Windows XP: Type dir /s %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/Events/*
4. Type dir /s %ALLUSERSPROFILE%/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/History/*
   • Windows XP: Type dir /s %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/History/*
5. Type dir /s %ALLUSERSPROFILE%/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/Logs/*
   • Windows XP: Type dir /s %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/Logs/*
6. Type dir /s %LOCALAPPDATA%/VirtualStore/ProgramData/Ad-Aware Antivirus/Logs/*
   • Windows XP: Type dir /s %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data/VirtualStore/ProgramData/Ad-Aware Antivirus/Logs/*
7. Type dir /s %LOCALAPPDATA%/VirtualStore/ProgramData/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/Events/*
   • Windows XP: Type dir /s %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data/VirtualStore/ProgramData/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/Events/*
8. Type dir /s %LOCALAPPDATA%/VirtualStore/ProgramData/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/History/*
   • Windows XP: Type dir /s %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data/VirtualStore/ProgramData/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/History/*
9. Type dir /s %LOCALAPPDATA%/VirtualStore/ProgramData/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/Logs/*
   • Windows XP: Type dir /s %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data/VirtualStore/ProgramData/Lavasoft/AntiMalware/Logs/*

Once you have identified the files stored by Ad-Aware Antivirus that you want to clean, delete them using the del command or Windows Explorer.