RonT 0 Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Tried a manual uninstall of NOD32 trial version. It did not uninstall. It no longer appears in the list of add or remove programs. Please! How can I uninstall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESET Staff CB530 67 Posted July 5, 2013 ESET Staff Share Posted July 5, 2013 Hi Ron, I am, assuming that you followed the instructions from our Knowledgebase article when performing your manual uninstall. Please do so if you did not during your first attempt. It may be necessary in some cases to repeat this procedure several times to fully remove the software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonT 0 Posted July 5, 2013 Author Share Posted July 5, 2013 Thanks for being so swift. I am doing it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonT 0 Posted July 5, 2013 Author Share Posted July 5, 2013 What data? What harm? In safe mode uninstaller run: "WARNING! This tool uninstalls AV product in a non standard way. Your PC can be harmed seriously, please back up your data." How seriously? Sounds like a gamble to me. I'm afraid, in my ignorance, to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESET Staff CB530 67 Posted July 5, 2013 ESET Staff Share Posted July 5, 2013 This warning exists primarily because the uninstaller will make edits to your registry. While these changes are only made to the part of the registry where ESET is installed, it is always best to have a backup available any time that you are going to edit registry entries because of the potential for damage if the wrong entry is edited.We do recommend that you back up your system prior to running the uninstaller tool. In my experience using the tool the only issues I have seen are the networking issues that are called out in the article which may or may not affect you depending on your operating system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonT 0 Posted July 5, 2013 Author Share Posted July 5, 2013 Okay then. I was anxious to uninstall NOD because another antivirus program that I was testing simply turned off and became inaccessible for no explicable reason so I thought they could be conflicting. The other one just now started operating (after a few hours) again for no explicable reason so: Since I am using only the trial version of NOD32 I'll just wait for the trial expiration at which time I expect it will be deactivated. Or who knows I might decide to keep it and discard the other but i do get a bad taste in my mouth when an installed program gets barbed hooks inside my system. Thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 4,187 Posted July 5, 2013 Administrators Share Posted July 5, 2013 Every antivirus software must hook deeply in the OS, otherwise it wouldn't be able to protect you against advanced malware like rootkits or bootkits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonT 0 Posted July 5, 2013 Author Share Posted July 5, 2013 Ah yes! But the operative word was "barbed". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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