Of course, that is the way those scam virus protection programs work. They get inside of your computer, make you think you have a virus, and then never full uninstall themselves.
Go ahead and install AVG and see what happens. You may have to use AVG to completely remove what remains of CyberDefender. I would also do some Google searching to see if there aren't ways to completely remove CyberDefender. You might have to manually dig through your computer to delete files (hold the shift key and then hit the delete key, this will permanently remove files, you don't want to send anything CyberDefender related to the recycling bin as it can always find a way out), delete registry entries, delete dll files, etc.
I think you actually would have been better off activating your trial of McAfee in the very beginning as you can always completely uninstall that while CyberDefender is nothing but a big scam.
If worst comes to worst, you can always reformat your computer or even restore it to a point before you installed CyberDefender (which still may not remove the necessary files).
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