Antivirus Remover or "This crap is worse than a virus"

Sept 2019 List of Antivirus Removal by Provider

AppRemover Helps You Thoroughly Uninstall Antivirus And Internet Security Software

There are over fifty anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-malware, and other security related software available to secure your PC and data. Most of us use at least one antivirus or Internet security suite to protect against viruses, trojans, malware, and other threats.

When I saw this a few days ago I wondered if I would ever use it. Then I set up a new Dell Vostro for the office that had TrendMicro insisting that I install it. I wouldn't use TrendMicro if you paid me so I tried getting rid of it. Even though it had not yet "installed" the Dell setup had zillions of TrendMicro entries in the registry. I finally gave up and remembered reading about AppRemover. It worked like magic. Great time saver.
Now I can use Microsoft Security Essentials and be happy.

Happy too soon. I still had to hunt down some TrenMicro and Roxio stuff left over. Search and delete with regedit and searching with Everything.exe fially did it. The roxwatchtray.exe is still hiding and starting.

*** The trick with roxwatchtray (after deleting all references I could find) was using Ccleaner to clean the registry. Ccleaner's reg cleaner is fairly harmless and won't take anything out that is not obvious.

Dell's local backup needed to be done manually and had a bunch of reg entries. Look for folders in the reg that can be taken out while doing a search.

The next time I use an off the shelf machine, I am formatting and clean installing. It would take much less time.