Clam Antivirus is an open source (GPL) antivirus toolkit developed for UNIX, and third-party versions are available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, OpenVMS, OSF, Solaris, and Mac OS X. This program is capable of detect various types of malicious software, including viruses. It is specially designed to scan email on mail gateways. However, sometimes for some reason you may need to uninstall Clam Antivirus, and it is difficult to manually perform a ClamAV cleanup.

A few weeks ago I tried to update my ClamAV to the newest version but failed. So I decided to uninstall it and set the newer one. After going to the Add/Remove Programs list via the Start menu and uninstalling this antivirus, I found in my TEMP folder that Clam Antivirus leaves many temporary folders. ClamWin is not cleaning files in the temporary directory when it unzips a compressed file that it is scanning for viruses. Therefore, you must remove all of them while uninstalling this antivirus.

You can delete them manually, and below are the instructions:

The following are the types of files that are left in the TEMP directory. The names are different but remain similar. The directories that were left contained files. So, as you can imagine, these would build up in space over time.

Directory: clamav-0585b8952d374a7ddcc0a551ff27e423.fff63b03.clamtmp

Directory: clamav-ad6d970ba9f3b1e7b534a733bbc2c6c7.fff63b03.clamtmp

File: ClamWin_Update_Time

File: ClamWin1.log

File: ClamWin2.log

File: ClamWin3.log

Of course, if you are not sure that you can completely uninstall ClamAV using the above method, you can try another way. A good automatic removal tool can also help you remove all this antivirus in seconds without any hassle.

Actually, there is a fantastic removal tool that can help you uninstall and remove Clam Antivirus with flying colors and make sure that all now-disappeared Registry entries and related files are automatically removed in a few clicks. Apart from this software, it can also completely remove other programs like Authentium, Norton, Trend Micro antivirus, Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office and similar programs.