Kaspersky Scan Engine

Manual uninstallation (Windows)

This section describes how to manually uninstall Kaspersky Scan Engine.

To manually uninstall Kaspersky Scan Engine:

1. Make sure that you have administrator privileges.
2. Stop Kaspersky Scan Engine, run the following command:

   sc stop "Kaspersky ScanEngine"

3. If you use Kaspersky Scan Engine UI, run the following command:

   sc stop "Kaspersky ScanEngine UI"

4. If you added Kaspersky Scan Engine to the list of Windows services, delete it by running the following command:

   sc delete "Kaspersky ScanEngine"

5. If you used Kaspersky Scan Engine GUI and added it to the list of Windows services, delete it by running the following command:

   sc delete "Kaspersky ScanEngine UI"

6. 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;

7. Remove the %service_dir% directory. You can do this either by using Windows Explorer, or by running the following command:

   del /F %service_dir%

8. Remove the directory that contains temporary files used by Kaspersky Scan Engine. You can do this either by using Windows Explorer, or by running the following command:

   del /F %temp_dir%

   Here %temp_dir% is the temporary directory.