How to Remove VIPRE
VIPRE delivers comprehensive protection against today's highly complex spyware, viruses, and blended malware threats. As a Tee Support agent, my colleague keeps testing all kinds of popular programs. VIPRE was certainly in the list for testing and it happened just when my colleague decided to remove VIPRE on her computer.
To uninstall the program, my colleague first tried the following steps: Start-> Control Panel-> Add or Remove programs. To her surprise, in the list of AddRemove program, she couldn't find any trace of VIPRE so this method was not workable.
Wanting to remove VIPRE quickly, my colleague used a tool called QuuSoft Uninstaller to fix the problem. She ran QuuSoft Uninstaller and couldn't find the unwanted program there in the main interface of QuuSoft Uninstaller, too. Surprisingly, my colleague soon decided to remove the program with the Force Uninstall function of Quusoft Uninstaller and the following was the whole steps:
Step One: Booted the computer into safe mode by restarting the computer and keeping to press F8 key during the start up;
Step Two: Ran Quusoft Uninstaller and then Chose Force Uninstall option on the top of the main interface of the uninstaller;
Step Three: In the window that followed, clicked OK to proceed;
Step Four: Clicked the icon next to Scanning the program to select the folder in the hard drive named Subnet Software and then clicked Next to start removing the program. Followed the on-screen prompts until finished, then the program was uninstalled. (It was highly recommended to uninstall the subfolders one by one);
Step Five: Delete the shortcut of VIPRE on the desktop;
Step Six: Navigated to Local Disk C> Program files> Subnet software. Right-clicked it and selected Delete;
Step Seven: Empty Recycle Bin.
By managing the above steps, my colleague got rid of VIPRE but she was still curious about the program so she reinstalled it again. This time, she was able to find the antivirus software in Control Panel then the answer to why the problem of failing to uninstall the software on Control panel happened at the beginning came to her in a flash of inspiration. Something probably got corrupted during the install. This was rare, but it did happen.
