cannot unistall

i have avast! free edition. i downloaded it about two weeks ago. soon thereafter i began to get at least one bsod per day. the problem was isolated to one of the files installed by avast! (this was determined by looking at the minidump files). i need to uninstall avast but every time i attempt to uninstall it i get the message “there was an error during product uninstallation” and it will not go any further.

please provide me with a way to get this off of my computer.

katg

Go here and follow the instructions and see if that works.

http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility

i’ve tried the uninstall utility. i get the same error message.

Are you running the uninstall utility from safe mode as the instructions suggested ?