luckylou 0 Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I used the Anti-Theft options with ESET Smart Security and my son took the computer and logged in to the phantom account without me knowing. Once I got the computer back, I marked it via the online system as being "not stolen" but the computer never restarted, and never returned to normal. So right now I am locked out of my normal login and I can only use the computer to browse the internet via the phantom account. I have tried to go back in and reset the whole thing, uninstalled and reinstalled ESET, opened the phantom account, marked it stolen and then recoverd and still nothing. I can't even reset my computer using the Dell recovery because I can only access it from the phantom account. My computer is ruined. How can I fix this?!?! I am using a Dell Latitude 3340 running Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESET Staff metaller 49 Posted August 31, 2015 ESET Staff Share Posted August 31, 2015 send me your my.eset.com email and device name via PM pls... thx peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_A 0 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I have the same issue as luckylou, can I suggest that you add a way to resolve this issue to your online help section. Is there anyone who can help me with this problem in the next couple of hours, my son needs his laptop for school tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 5,074 Posted September 2, 2015 Administrators Share Posted September 2, 2015 I have the same issue as luckylou, can I suggest that you add a way to resolve this issue to your online help section. Is there anyone who can help me with this problem in the next couple of hours, my son needs his laptop for school tomorrow Please pm me the information requested by Metaller above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_A 0 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 The pm with the requested information was sent within 10 minutes of your post Marcos, but the problem is still unresolved...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cycling_with_scissors 0 Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 I believe I'm having the same problem. My first reboot after installing anti-theft, my computer will not successfully boot. During the Windows 7 startup screen, before the user is selected, the whole screen flashes and appears to restart the Windows boot process, and repeats about every 1 second. I can successfully login to Safe Mode with Networking, see both my normal and alias logins, but it's in safe mode. I tried to run ESET Smart Security, but it will not startup in Safe Mode. What should I try? I'm running Windows 7 SP1 on an HP 4540s laptop. ESET Smart Security was recently installed, scan was run, minor issues were found and corrrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdb 1 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 I'm having a similar problem. I tested the anti-theft on my daughters laptop which resulted in her laptop restarting and coming up with only the phantom account. I changed status back to not missing but I only the phantom account is available from the login screen. please advise how to restore the original account. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzee 0 Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Old Post but... after seeking advise... I left my computer on for a while (I was told 20 minutes), restarted, and there it was.. my main account.... I think better notification/instructions on the anti-theft page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Jaramillo 0 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 I'm locked out of my laptop . I accidentally clicked the phantoms account and now it doesn't do anything. How do I get my laptop to work right again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davor 0 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Hi, same problem, after i marked my laptop as not missing, nothing happens. Now it is more that 3 hours and i can only log on ti phantom account. Any ideas???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menangan335 0 Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 i have same problem too.I just want to try anti theft and mark my device is missing.it restarting self.and then i login to my phantom account.And i mark my device as not missing but still cannot normal login in website say 20 miniute but nothing happen plz help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESET Moderators foneil 342 Posted May 30, 2017 ESET Moderators Share Posted May 30, 2017 15 hours ago, menangan335 said: i have same problem too.I just want to try anti theft and mark my device is missing.it restarting self.and then i login to my phantom account.And i mark my device as not missing but still cannot normal login in website say 20 miniute but nothing happen plz help Two things: 1) make sure that once you mark as recovered, that you let the computer restart automatically on its own. If you don't know or didn't do that, go through the "repeat" process to do it again 2) in some cases Technical Support has seen this process take up to 24 hours. http://support.eset.com/kb5711/#recover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zbs 0 Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Bonjour Hello, I apologize for opening an old post. I tried to click on the missing device button, my pc restarted in ghost mode, and there is no way out. 1st step I am out of lost mode (pc recover), I waited a little bit then I rebooted my pc and there still nothing, it reconnect in ghost mode. 2nd step I deleted the ghost account from my account on the internet, still no reaction ... 3rd step I deleted my pc from my ESET account on the internet, of course still nothing! 4th step to harden the problem, I completely deleted my account definitely on the internet! help ??? how to find my surface pro 4 that I just bought there are not even 3 days ? Please thank you for your answers thank you Google translation I am french ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 5,074 Posted November 7, 2017 Administrators Share Posted November 7, 2017 Please drop me a pm with your registration email address for the my.eset.com portal as well as the name of the device that is locked out so that I can check its status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zbs 0 Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 44 minutes ago, Marcos said: Please drop me a pm with your registration email address for the my.eset.com portal as well as the name of the device that is locked out so that I can check its status. Thank you for your help! I launched a system restore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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