Removing default theme widgets

I am trying to remove the default widgets in a theme that I found here: http://top-wordpress.net/ The theme is Terapathy. In case of some of the most used themes, if I select the custom widgets, the default theme widgets disappear. But with Terapathy theme or any of the themes found in that site it is not possible. Is there anything I can do to remove those widgets.

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  1. you can remove them by adding a blank text widget
    or you can open the sidebar.php file of the theme witch looks like this:

    <!-- begin box about -->
            <!-- begin sidebar -->
            <div id="sidebar">
    
    
              <h2>About</h2>
                <div class="sidebox">
    <img id="aboutimg" src="<?php echo get_option('cici_about_image')?>" alt="about"  />
    <p><?php echo stripslashes(get_option('cici_about_txt')); ?></p>
                </div>
    <h2>Advertisement</h2>
    <div class="sidebox">
    <?php if(get_option('cici_ads')=='yes'){?>
    <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/ad1.php'); ?>
    <?php }?>
    <div class="clear"></div>
    </div>
    <?php if(get_option('cici_videos')=='yes'){?>
    <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/video.php'); ?>
    <?php }?>
    <h2>Popular Articles</h2>
    <ul class="popular">
    <?php pp_popular_posts(4); ?>
    </ul>
    <h2>Flickr Photos</h2>
    <div id="flickr">
    <?php if (function_exists('get_flickrRSS')) get_flickrRSS(); ?>
    </div>
    <?php 
        /* Widgetized sidebar */
        if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
    
    <?php endif; ?>
    </div>
                <!-- end sidebar -->
            </div>
            <!-- end colRight -->
    

    and remove all of the static widgets so you get something like this:

        <!-- begin box about -->
                <!-- begin sidebar -->
                <div id="sidebar">
    <?php 
        /* Widgetized sidebar */
        if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
    
    <?php endif; ?>
                </div>
                <!-- end sidebar -->
            </div>
            <!-- end colRight -->
    

    this is right about the Terapathy theme, but you get the point and you can do that to any other theme with static widgets in sidebars.