How to remove Mackeeper from my iMac

Help please.
I am trying to remove a trail version of Mackeeper from my imac.
I have run cleanmymac and tried to manually remove items to trash but it keeps saying Antivirus is running.
I have found this in Activity Monitor but cannot get the process to stop running.
Any ideas how I can remove this thing?
May thanks

Have a look here:
http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/

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