Clam Antivirus is an open source (GPL) antivirus toolkit developed for UNIX, and it has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, OpenVMS, OSF, Solaris and Mac OS X. This program is able to detect various types of malicious software, including virus. It is designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. However, sometimes for some reason, you may need to uninstall Clam Antivirus, and manually conducting a clean ClamAV is difficult.

A few weeks ago, I tried to update my ClamAV to the newer version, but I failed. Then I decided to uninstall it and set up the newer one. After I went to Add/Remove programs list through the Start menu and uninstalled this antivirus, I found in my TEMP folder Clam Antivirus is leaving behind lots of temp folders. ClamWin is not cleaning up files in the temp directory when it decompresses an archive file that is scanning for viruses. So you need to delete all of them when uninstalling this antivirus.

You can erase them manually, and below is the instructions:

The following are the kinds of files that are being left behind in the TEMP directory. The names are different but they are still similar. The directories left contained files. So as you can imagine, these would add up space-wise over time.

Directory: clamav-0585b8952d374a7ddcc0a551ff27e423.fff63b03.clamtmp

Directory: clamav-ad6d970ba9f3b1e7b534a733bbc2c6c7.fff63b03.clamtmp

File: ClamWin_Upadte_Time

File: ClamWin1.log

File: ClamWin2.log

File: ClamWin3.log

Of course, if you have no certainty to fully uninstall ClamAV by the method above, you can try another way. A good automate removal tool also can help you delete this entire antivirus in seconds with hassle free.

There is actually a fantastic removal tool that can help you fully uninstall and remove Clam Antivirus with great success and make sure all the now-defunct Registry entries and related files are eliminated automatically with a few clicks. Aside from this software, it can also completely remove other programs like Authentium, Norton, Trend Micro antivirus, Internet Explorer, or Microsoft Office, and similar programs.