Mherwa 0 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 we install the remote administrator agent through a gpo, and it works on all systems except one. So I decided to uninstall the agent, but for some reason I'm not able to do this with any of the administrator account (local or domain). We get the error message "You are not a local administrator. Therefore you are not allowed to modify this product.". The pc has win 7 sp1 and all updates installed, on a different pc, same config and OS we can manually uninstall the agent. Anyone else had this happen and has a solution ? TIA, Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 4,546 Posted March 29, 2016 Administrators Share Posted March 29, 2016 Is an ESET Endpoint product installed on the machine? If so, Self-defense is protecting agent from being uninstalled or stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mherwa 0 Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 No Eset Endpoint product is installed, only the agent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbsky 8 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Is an ESET Endpoint product installed on the machine? If so, Self-defense is protecting agent from being uninstalled or stopped. hi: I am testing ERA6 now with two PC and one server. so I install/uninstall agent/endpoint many times. quite often the agent refuse to uninstall because it can not stop the service. I must set the agent service as a "stopped" service and reboot, then I can uninstall the agent. it seems not related to endpoint installed or not. I just uninstall an agent with endpoint installed smoothly. if you need more info for testing, please tell me. I am always doing install/uninstall these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mherwa 0 Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 (edited) The service cannot start at all, so that's not the problem in my case. It seems that the installation is corrupt, as the service won't start at all, and reports 'The remote server is disconnected or being restarted' in the eventlog (event ID 7024). Edited March 30, 2016 by Mherwa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESET Moderators TomasP 301 Posted March 30, 2016 ESET Moderators Share Posted March 30, 2016 Hello, If you are willing to perform an advanced, manual removal of the Agent, please PM me. T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbsky 8 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 hi: if I want to uninstall agent at windows with UAC enabled via control panel, it will pop the message below. (although this message is unrelated to success/failure of uninstall). endpoint product is fine with UAC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Mherwa 0 Posted March 31, 2016 Author Solution Share Posted March 31, 2016 Hello Tomas, the manual uninstall worked, the agent is now fully uninstalled using the provided instructions. Only now the reinstall of the agent fails. When I get to the screen where you can select a cluster installation and press next then nothing happens, the setup stays at the same screen. I do the installation by using a msi file + transform file, the same one we use for our gpo. I used the same command I used on a different workstation which worked fine. @tbsky my issue was completely different as to no matter what account was used or uac enabled/disabled the installation couldn't be modified due to corruption. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbsky 8 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 @Mherwa yes I know my problem is different than yours. but since it is also related to agent uninstall so I think maybe I should put them here. and I think you will meet the same problem soon if you install/uninstall many times. in fact I got into similar situation like your case once. one time the uninstall process was unsuccessful and I lost patience so I just reboot. after reboot the agent disappear from the control panel program list, but the dead body still exist in c:\program files and in windows registry. I try to reinstall agent but it refuse to install. I tried to delete agent body from c:\program files and delete Eset windows registry. agent still refuse to install. after several reboot and try I think since it can not work, I should make a installation log so I can check what happened. but then unfortunately(or fortunately?) agent install success, so I didn't know what happened. maybe you can try command like below to make a log, to see if you can find out what happened in the %temp%\eset-agent-install.log? msiexec /l*v %temp%\eset-agent-install.log Agent_x64.msi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmuster2k 22 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 There could be a rogue agent reg key causing the install to fail: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\ Then search for: ESET Remote Adminsitrator Agent The identifier is different per machine DELETE THE WHOLE KEY AND THEN install again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mherwa 0 Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 Unfortunately the install log doesn't show anything usefull, it just stops, no error messages. @tmuster2k All the reg keys are gone, windows installer also sees it as a firsttime install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
German Schrage 0 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Hi, i have the exact same problem, can anyone give me some help? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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