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Impossible to uninstall Acronis Active Protection Service

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I am a bit miffed.  I buy a Sabrent SDD drive, which allows you access to a quasi-free version of Acronis True Image in order to mirror an existing hard drive to this new Sabrent drive that I just purchased.  So I bite at the bait and install ATI from Sabrent's web site.

The install went well, and the hard drive was mirrored, and I thought all is well...except, never in the installation of ATI was I told that Acronis was installing anything other than a mirroring tool.  Instead, I find that I've Acronis installed something called Active Protection Service...something I don't want, and which I now find, cannot get rid of.

I have uninstalled True Image, and yet... the Active Protection Service is still running!

How do I get rid of this trojanware call Active Protection Service.  Trojanware because the mirroring software posed as one thing but turned out to be something totally different, which one cannot remove.

It is impossible to get support from Acronis since they will not open a support ticket unless you have purchased the software and have registered the software.   This really is a royal pain for something that I though was nothing more than a disk imaging tool.

Can any one assist in getting this Active Protection Service off my Windows 10 PC since Acronis will not take responsibility for the mess they created.

Thanks.

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Peter, please see KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to your OEM version of ATI from Sabrent.

All versions of ATI from the 2017 Next Generation product, through 2018, 2019 & 2020 have integrated the Acronis Active Protection (AAP) feature and this looks to have filtered through into the OEM versions of ATI.

AAP is not malware / trojanware of any kind and it can be stopped and removed if done so as part of doing a full uninstall of the main Acronis application, so is strange that you say you have uninstalled ATI but that AAP has remained active on your computer.

I would recommend downloading a copy of the Acronis Cleanup Tool (link in my signature) and running this as Administrator to remove further remnants of ATI from your computer but please be very careful if making any changes to the Windows Registry.

Any update or resolve to this. I find myself in the same situation.  I can not uninstall this crap.  I even tried the cleanup utility they have and nothing works.  

 

Gary, welcome to these public User Forums.

The Acronis Cleanup Tool should be capable of fully removing all traces of installed Acronis applications, assuming that it is being run from an Administrator account and a Windows restart is performed after using it.

The other method of removing specific Acronis background services is as follows:

  1. Open the Windows services.msc and set the Acronis service to Disabled for the automatic start option.
  2. Restart the computer (use Safe Mode if needed) then delete that associated Acronis executable for the disabled service.  The path and name of the executable is shown in the Properties for the disabled service (above the Start type: selection box).