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I have Avast Pro  antivirus installed and I want to uninstall it but I am unable to do so because on trying to uninstall it, I get this error : "error reading product data from C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\avast\setup\" . Setup cannot continue"

I tried to manually delete the folder but I get this msg "you require permission from administrator to perform this action", I am already using administrator account. I even tried REVO Uninstaller but still it is not uninstalled.  What's the next step?

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2012-03-06 09:51:00
boot into safe mode and try to uninstall from there.
Chris Hoffman
2012-03-06 05:58:00
Antivirus companies usually provide downloadable utilities you can run to fix this sort of problem.Here's Avast's version: http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utilityJust download and run it; it should uninstall Avast properly.
Osama
2012-03-06 12:47:00
 it worked