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Common Problems

Antivirus tab shows old entries

Written By Mikel from Gorelo

Problem

You’ve uninstalled the old antivirus and yet it continues to show in the antivirus tab

Solution

Remnants of the old antivirus are still in the Windows Security Center

  1. Open an elevated PowerShell window

  2. Run the WMI tester command

WBEMTEST

  1. Click Connect

  2. Enter ‘root/securitycenter2‘ in the Namespace field and click Connect

  3. Now in the IWbemServices section, click Query…

  4. Enter ‘SELECT * from Antivirusproduct‘ and click Apply

  5. Double-click the object and scroll down to ‘displayName’ to see the AV name

  6. Delete the old objects

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