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AppRemover is a free uninstallation software utility or SDK from OPSWAT, a company located in San Francisco. The software allows users to thoroughly remove antivirus, antispyware, and other security applications from vendors such as McAfee, Symantec, Avira, avast!, AVG, and Kaspersky, and recently support for removal of some peer-to-peer (P2P) applications was added.

Security products are widely known to leave behind files when removed through the product's uninstall feature, or through the OS's uninstall program. AppRemover can remove these resulting fragments that often remain on their computers. The program first scans the user's computer for currently installed security programs and files leftover from incomplete uninstalls.

The free utility is for non-commercial use and has been downloaded over 2 million times from appremover.com, and is also available on several other download sites such as CNET and TechWorld.

The SDK is available for commercial use. The most frequent customers are software vendors who would like to add an efficient uninstall feature to a product and IT managers at large companies or universities who need to move from one security application to another. Professional users can write a simple script to adapt the CLI to fit their specific needs.

AppRemover is on a month release cycle. Each release usually contains updates to support new security products. The utility is only available for Windows, but support for Mac OS is planned for the future.