Tenable Nessus

A way to uninstall Tenable Nessus from your PC

This page is about Tenable Nessus for Windows. Below you can find details on how to uninstall it from your computer. It was created for Windows by Tenable, Inc.. You can read more on Tenable, Inc. or check for application updates here. Detailed information about Tenable Nessus can be found at http://www.tenable.com. Tenable Nessus is frequently installed in the C:\Program Files\Tenable\Nessus directory, but this location can vary a lot depending on the user's choice while installing the application. You can remove Tenable Nessus by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line MsiExec.exe /I{75ECF9CA-2761-4CD4-A8EC-85B8EEB030DF}. Note that you might be prompted for administrator rights. nessus-service.exe is the programs's main file and it takes around 10.50 KB (10752 bytes) on disk.

Tenable Nessus contains of the executables below. They occupy 15.39 MB (16135168 bytes) on disk.

• nasl.exe (5.04 MB)
• ndbg.exe (61.50 KB)
• nessus-service.exe (10.50 KB)
• nessuscli.exe (5.02 MB)
• nessusd.exe (5.25 MB)

This data is about Tenable Nessus version 8.3.1.20188 alone. You can find below a few links to other Tenable Nessus versions:

• 8.8.0.20216
• 8.11.1.20243
• 8.2.3.20186
• 7.0.3.20111
• 8.0.0.20153
• 8.3.0.20187
• 7.1.2.20118
• 7.1.0.20115

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How to uninstall Tenable Nessus with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Tenable Nessus is an application offered by Tenable, Inc.. Frequently, people want to uninstall this application. Sometimes this can be efortful because performing this manually requires some advanced knowledge related to PCs. The best SIMPLE action to uninstall Tenable Nessus is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows system, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and all around tool to maximize the performance of your Windows system.

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• go to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take your time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful package of utilities.

3. Press the General Tools category


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs tool


5. All the programs existing on your PC will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of programs until you locate Tenable Nessus or simply activate the Search feature and type in "Tenable Nessus". The Tenable Nessus app will be found automatically. When you select Tenable Nessus in the list of apps, the following data about the program is available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have about Tenable Nessus, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
• Technical information about the program you want to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Tenable Nessus:

• The web site of the program is: http://www.tenable.com
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /I{75ECF9CA-2761-4CD4-A8EC-85B8EEB030DF}

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will come up. accept the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically remove Tenable Nessus.


8. After removing Tenable Nessus, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run a cleanup. Press Next to start the cleanup. All the items of Tenable Nessus which have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By removing Tenable Nessus with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry entries, files or folders are left behind on your computer.

Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and able to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to remove Tenable Nessus by Tenable, Inc. from your computer, we are not saying that Tenable Nessus by Tenable, Inc. is not a good software application. This text simply contains detailed info on how to remove Tenable Nessus in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.