You shouldn't trust that uninstalling the AV reliably gets rid of whatever kernel drivers and other detritus it came with. I don't know of any AV examples but p

You shouldn't trust that uninstalling the AV reliably gets rid of whatever kernel drivers and other detritus it came with. I don't know of any AV examples but plenty of video game anti-cheat software has that problem. Just wipe and reinstall Windows.