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- Data provision
- Data provision under the End User License Agreement
- Data provision under the End User License Agreement on the territory of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Brazil, or by California residents
- Data provision to Kaspersky Security Network
- Saving data to the application operation report
- Locally processed data
- Saving service data on application operation
- About using the application in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Brazil, or by California residents
- About Kaspersky Free
- How to install or remove the application
- What is My Kaspersky account for?
- How to protect another device
- Switching from Kaspersky Free to a different subscription
- How to configure the application interface
- Security
- Assessing computer protection status and resolving security issues
- How to fix security issues on your PC
- How to restore a deleted or disinfected file
- Scanning the computer
- Updating anti-virus databases and application modules
- Pre-Kaspersky virus removal
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- Protection using hardware virtualization
- About protection using Antimalware Scan Interface
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- How to uninstall incompatible applications
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- How to restore the default settings of the application
- How to view the application operation report
- How to apply the application settings on another computer
- Participating in Kaspersky Security Network
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- Other sources of information about the application
- Network settings for interaction with external services
- Glossary
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- Blocking an object
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How to uninstall the application
After removing the application, your computer and personal data will be unprotected.
The application is removed using the Setup Wizard.
How to uninstall the application in Windows 7
To start the Wizard on a computer running under Microsoft Windows 7 or earlier versions,
in the Start menu, select All applications → Kaspersky Free → Remove Kaspersky Free.
How to uninstall the application in Windows 8 or later
To start the Wizard on a computer running Microsoft Windows 8 or later:
- Find the installed application in one of the following ways:
- In Windows 8, click the Start button and find Kaspersky Free on the quick start screen.
- In Windows 10 and higher click the Start button and find the application in the list or use the search bar.
- Right-click the application icon for Kaspersky Free.
- In the context menu select Uninstall.
- In the window that opens, select Kaspersky Free in the list.
- Click the Remove / Edit button in the upper part of the list.
The Application setup wizard will start.
Removal involves the following steps:
- To remove the application, you must enter the password for accessing the application settings. If you cannot specify the password for any reason, application removal will be prohibited.
Password entry window
- Saving data for future use
During this step you can specify which of the data used by the application you want to keep for further use during the next installation of the application (for example, when installing a newer version of the application).
Saving settings window
You can save the following data:
- Quarantine files are files scanned by the application and moved to Quarantine.
After the application is removed from the computer, quarantined files become unavailable. To perform operations with these files, Kaspersky Free must be installed.
- Operational settings of the application are values of application settings selected when configuring the application.
You can also export the protection settings at the command prompt, by using the following command:
avp.com EXPORT <file_name>
.- iChecker data are files that contain information about objects that have already been scanned using iChecker technology.
iChecker is a technology that increases the speed of anti-virus scans by excluding objects that have remained unchanged since their last scan, provided that the scan parameters (the anti-virus database and settings) have not changed. The information for each file is stored in a special database. This technology is used in both real-time protection and on-demand scan modes.
For example, you have an archive file that was scanned by a Kaspersky application and assigned not infected status. Next time, the application will skip this archive unless the archive has been altered or the scan settings have been changed. If you altered the archive content by adding a new object to it, modified the scan settings, or updated the anti-virus database, the archive is re-scanned.
Limitations of iChecker technology:
- This technology does not work with large files, since it is faster to scan a file than to check whether the file has been modified since it was last scanned.
- The technology supports a limited number of formats (EXE, DLL, LNK, TTF, INF, SYS, COM, CHM, ZIP, RAR).
- Quarantine files are files scanned by the application and moved to Quarantine.
- Confirming removal
Since removing the application threatens the security of your computer and personal data, you will be asked to confirm your intention to remove the application. To do this, click the Remove button.
Window for confirming the removal of the application
- Completing removal
During this step, the Wizard removes the application from your computer. Wait until removal is complete.
This functionality may be unavailable in some regions.
During removal of the application, you must restart your operating system. If you cancel an immediate restart, completion of the removal procedure is postponed until the operating system is restarted or the computer is turned off and then started up.
- To restart the computer, click Yes.
Uninstallation completion window