OPSWAT’s AppRemover Races Past 1,000,000 Downloads

March 22, 2011 - PRLog -- OPSWAT announced today that their free security application removal tool, AppRemover, has been downloaded more than one million times. Available at appremover.com, the tool enables easy and thorough uninstallation of antivirus and antispyware applications from any computer.

AppRemover uses the detection capabilities of OPSWAT’s OESIS Framework to see the security applications installed on a computer and enable easy uninstallation. OPSWAT, the industry leader in software management SDKs, interoperability certification and multiple-engine scanning solutions, developed this free tool to help users avoid the stress and annoyance of uninstalling security applications. While many security applications include their own uninstallation functions, the processes are often incomplete or complex. AppRemover thoroughly uninstalls antivirus and antispyware products, and can be used to clean up a previous, failed uninstallation. Users looking to replace their security application or upgrade to a new version often use AppRemover to smooth the transition.

“People love AppRemover because it is free and simple to use. The user interface is clean and easy to understand,” commented Jeff Garon, Director of Marketing at OPSWAT. “We’re thrilled that AppRemover has been able to help so many people in such a short period of time.”

AppRemover also contributes to the data collection for OPSWAT’s quarterly security industry market share reports. Based on users who opt in to sending OPSWAT anonymous data about software residing on their computer, AppRemover gives OPSWAT insight into what applications are being used by the thousands of users who download AppRemover each day. OPSWAT’s latest report announced Symantec as the leading antivirus vendor in North America based partially on the data collected through this tool (See http://www.opswat.com/media/reports).

In just over a year, AppRemover has gathered popularity in almost 200 countries, been featured on many blogs and forums and been posted on numerous sites for download. OPSWAT continues to improve the product by adding support for additional products in monthly releases, described on the AppRemover News page (http://www.appremover.com/news). Learn more about AppRemover and OPSWAT on http://www.opswat.com or visit AppRemover on Facebook.

About OPSWAT:

Founded in 2002, OPSWAT is the industry leader in software management SDKs, interoperability certification and multiple-engine scanning solutions. With both software manageability and multi-scanning products, OPSWAT offers simplified and comprehensive SDKs that reduce time and costs for your engineering and testing teams. OPSWAT delivers: OESIS Framework, an open development framework that enables software engineers to develop products that manage thousands of third-party software applications; Multi-scanning products including Metascan, MetaDefender for Media, and MetaDefender for Secure Access, which optimize several anti-malware engines to scan for viruses simultaneously; Filterbit, a free online tool powered by Metascan for scanning suspicious files; and AppRemover, a free utility that enables the complete uninstallation of antivirus applications.