Uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro – Remove Agnitum

You had a terrible time uninstalling Outpost Firewall Pro from a newly updated Windows operating system?

While other users want to uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro (unregistered/paid copy) because of those unwanted "News download" alerts, of unexpected conflict between Outpost Firewall (OPFW) with some featured download manager program like Tonec’s IDM (Internet Download Manager), speedbit’ DAP, Microsoft Download Manager ‘n other P2P apps, or of the fatal PC lockup problem on their Win7/ XP3 computers. Furthermore, some OPFW guys performed a bad installation of the firewall software so that web threats can easily exploit known/unknown vulnerability(ies) in the system and/or the installed software, and thus cause potential severe virus infection. Then removing Outpost Firewall Pro and use other more powerful yet easy-to-use personal firewall solution should be less than perfect. Well, there are several approaches to performing the uninstall of OPFW. How can you manage the task effectively? There are surely disadvantages to the manual steps, e.a., it will take extra time to modify Windows’ Services portion. Now, we have an ultimate solution that will uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro and, resolve other frustrating pup issues on your computer effortlessly.

Before uninstallation, it is advised to review/analysis the install of OPFW and then. You then process the uninstall with a user account gaining administrator privileges. Meanwhile, the process depends on how ya installed OPFW.

• Select Setup Language
• "Welcome to the Outpost Firewall Pro (8.1.2) Setup Wizard. Outpost Firewall Pro delivers comprehensive Internet protection that…"
• "Please read the following License Agreement. … Help Agnitum improve this program. …"
• "Select Type of Installation"

NOTE Here we’ll choose the 2nd option "Custom".

• "Select Additional Components. Below is the list of additional Outpost Firewall Pro components that… Web Control …"
• "Select Destination Location… At least 115 MB of free disk space is required." (Tip Throw the following folder into this recommended uninstall tool PRO to forcibly uninstall the Outpost Firewall Pro that is invisible in programs list.)
• "Ready to Install. Download the latest… updates…"
• "Microsoft Visual C++ run-time libraries installation"
• "Please wait while Setup installs Outpost Firewall Pro on your computer."
• "Rules Autocreation. Specify whether you want rules for well-known applications…"
• "Performing operation 3 of 3: Latest updates download"
• "Performing component registration…"
• "To complete the installation of Outpost Firewall Pro, setup must restart your computer. …"

How can I manually uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro from a 64-bit Win7 system?

WARNING The steps used to uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro may influence your computer health and security, at this point, it is strongly advisable that you now download other top-rated firewall brand or protection suite (like Comodo IS Plus, Kaspersky Internet Security) that better suits your requirements to replace the unwanted OPFW.

1. I first close the following "Outpost Firewall Pro Registration" window.
2. Then I directly shut down the said "OPFW News" pop up.
3. I find the running OPFW client in taskbar, right click on that blue tray icon then launch Exit option at the bottom of the context menu.
4. To smoothly and successfully uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro, I choose the 1st option "Exit and shutdown service" from the OPFW dialog window below.
5. And then, I open up Computer Management >> enter Service in Services and Applications entry to double check OPFW’s service Agnitum Client Security Service has been turned off.
6. To process the uninstall of OPFW, I ignore the following "View firewall options" alert from Windows Action Center.
7. Typically, there are two ways of uninstalling Outpost Firewall Pro:

Method 1: If you installed OPFW the "Typical" way, as mentioned above…

• Start/Windows key >> Control Panel >> "Add/Remove Programs" or "Uninstall a program".
• Locate the following Outpost Firewall Pro 8.1.2, you then launch the Uninstall option in "Uninstall or change a program" list (or "Currently installed programs" if you’re using an older version of Win OS.)
• Answer Yes to the following Outpost Firewall Pro 8.1.2 Uninstall.
• Please wait while OPFW is being removed.
• Then you may tick the option "No, I do not want to send feedback" then hit Finish on the "Uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro" box below.
• Then the uninstall process continues.
• And then, the Uninstall requires you to reboot your device.
• More exactly, you need to get rid of the possibly unused "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Redistributable – 10.0.40219" later so that you cleanly uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro.

Method 2: Use Agnitum’s original uninstaller application to uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro

• Complete the preliminary steps (Step 3, 4 and 5) above.
• Go to the aforementioned "(Installation) Destination Location".
• Employ your Admin rights to run the following "unins000" application (1,169 KB).
• Apply Yes option to the below User Account Control (UAC) then repeat the outlined procedure to uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro.

How to uninstall 32-bit edition of OPFW 8.1.2 from a W/XP computer?

• Completely quit ‘n shutdown OPFW, including its service.
• Run MS Windows operating system’s uninstall utility or Agnitum’s uninstaller app to uninstall Outpost Firewall Pro:
• Solution 1: start >> Control Panel >> Add/Remove >> highlight the below "OPFW 8.1.2" (51.61MB), hit Remove tab then. Remember, you too perform the uninstall of Visual C++ Redis 40219 if you do not wanna fiddle with PUA problems.
• Solution 2: Retry the said unins000 application to process the standard uninstall of OPFW.

If you’re new to Windows OS, WindowsUninstaller.org does NOT recommend manually making changes to your system’s filesystem and Registry Editor. Any improper modifications to the said 2 items above would destabilize your PC/workstation. Instead, you should use WindowsUninstaller.org-recommended uninstaller software PRO above to securely and thoroughly uninstall the Outpost Firewall Pro.

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