Kaspersky Scan Engine

Manual uninstallation (Linux)

This section describes how to manually uninstall Kaspersky Scan Engine.

To manually uninstall Kaspersky Scan Engine:

1. Make sure you have root (administrator) privileges.
2. Stop Kaspersky Scan Engine:
   • If you use Kaspersky Scan Engine in ICAP mode, run this command:

     /etc/init.d/kavicapd stop

   • If you use Kaspersky Scan Engine in HTTP mode, run this command:

     /etc/init.d/kavhttpd stop

   • If you use Kaspersky Scan Engine GUI, run this command:

     /etc/init.d/klScanEngineUI stop

3. Remove the executable file and the configuration file:
   • If you use Kaspersky Scan Engine in ICAP mode, run this command:

     rm /etc/init.d/kavicapd /etc/kavicapd.xml

   • If you use Kaspersky Scan Engine in HTTP mode, run this command:

     rm /etc/init.d/kavhttpd /etc/kavhttpd.xml

   • If you use Kaspersky Scan Engine GUI, run this command:

     rm /etc/init.d/klScanEngineUI /etc/klScanEngineUI.xml

4. If you use Kaspersky Scan Engine GUI, open the PostgreSQL database and execute the following query:

   DROP DATABASE kavebase;

   To remove the scanengine database user, run the following command:  

   DROP ROLE scanengine;

5. Remove the /opt/kaspersky/ScanEngine directory:

   rm –rf /opt/kaspersky/ScanEngine

6. Remove the directory that contains temporary files used by Kaspersky Scan Engine:

   rm –rf %temp_dir%

   Here %temp_dir% is the temporary directory.