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    Stupid Trend cruddy Micro won't install, OR UNINSTALL!

    PC-cillin Pro 2008 will not uninstall; what a hunk of garbage. I'm beyond sanity here, Vista Home Premium with SP1 had PC-cillin 2007 installed and working, it has been renewed and PC-cillin 2008 installed, which never finishes its final install steps. Now I have to use system restore to recover from before it was installed, and still cannot uninstall the remanants. Anybody have this problem before? I'm now trying to Install Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 which keeps showing Trend Micro as installed, and attempts to remove it, restarts, and repeats indefinatly.

    I've tried the 3 methods of uninstalling that Trend Micro suggest, the start menu entry, the Control Panel entry, and the special debug repair and removal tool, all of which fail or crash.
    The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
    ~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

    First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
    Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
    By the late 1980s, Stallman had refined it to a more simple mnemonic:
    "Don't think free as in free beer; think free as in [freedom]."
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    #2
    I'm going to try deleting the directory that PC-cillin installs in, but even in safe-mode there is a single remaining dll that says it's in use. I've disabled all start-up items in msconfig, I guess I need to go registry hunting too now?
    The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
    ~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

    First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
    Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
    By the late 1980s, Stallman had refined it to a more simple mnemonic:
    "Don't think free as in free beer; think free as in [freedom]."

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      #3
      Go into safemode uninstall and then try to run CCleaner (reg cleaner). If CCleaner doesn't work in safemode then boot up regularly and try it again. After that is done, make sure you run it multiple times until nothing comes up, reboot once again and try to install trend again or jump to kasp.
      Last edited by **G.I.BRO**; Feb 10, 2009, 01:46 PM.

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        #4
        ANY home user paying for AV is SILLY. All of the free programs such as AVG applied withg even a LITLE common sense, provide all the portection you need.
        Edward Crisler
        SAPPHIRE NA PR Representative

        #SapphireNation

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          #5
          Originally posted by Crisler View Post
          ANY home user paying for AV is SILLY. All of the free programs such as AVG applied withg even a LITLE common sense, provide all the portection you need.
          That sounds like it'll help in removing TrendMicro from UDHA's computer.


          Oh wait, no it won't.

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            #6
            Originally posted by caveman-jim View Post
            That sounds like it'll help in removing TrendMicro from UDHA's computer.


            Oh wait, no it won't.
            We'll he's pretty much right, but all he's proving is that most people are silly, I'd agree with that. I'm helping out a friend with this, I would NEVER recommend Trend Micro but it was already purchased, so what could I do?

            G.I.BRO, it doesn't allow the uninstall procedure to run under safe-mode, thanks for the help though.

            I'm thinking I will remove the harddrive, run a full scan on it from another machine with Kaspersky or something, then xcleaner, malware bytes and then ccleaner and see what that does.
            The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
            ~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

            First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
            Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
            Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
            Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
            Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
            By the late 1980s, Stallman had refined it to a more simple mnemonic:
            "Don't think free as in free beer; think free as in [freedom]."

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              #7
              There's a safe mode uninstall enabler, trying to find it now. It starts the services you need in Safe Mode to add/remove programs/hardware etc that you normally can't.

              Have you seen/tried this - http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/0...2008-manually/

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                #8
                Originally posted by caveman-jim View Post
                There's a safe mode uninstall enabler, trying to find it now. It starts the services you need in Safe Mode to add/remove programs/hardware etc that you normally can't.

                Have you seen/tried this - http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/0...2008-manually/
                Thanks heaps, I've had many times where this would be a huge help!
                The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
                ~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

                First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
                Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
                Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
                Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
                Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
                By the late 1980s, Stallman had refined it to a more simple mnemonic:
                "Don't think free as in free beer; think free as in [freedom]."

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                  #9
                  You can start the Windows Installer service in safe mode after adding the following registry entry:

                  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Minimal\MSIServer]
                  @="Service"

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by caveman-jim View Post
                    You can start the Windows Installer service in safe mode after adding the following registry entry:
                    That's a cool tip. You should add it to the OS Important Info Sticky.

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