Panda installation problem: need to uninstall an activex control that conflicts
Hi Crunchie.
Hope this thread is still active & that you will read this (if no response I'll start a new thread).
I popped for the Panda Platinum 2006 security suite (for 3 months), which is pretty comprehensive. Trying to update to new version I encountered an installation problem which I'm hoping you can help me solve.
(I'll explain why I'm updating to new version, which is a goofy story, briefly at bottom of this email).
anyway I'm trying to update to version 10.01.00, I think it is, from 10.00.00 (installation file is called platis2006).
installation program wants me to delete the program "eTrust EZ Antivirus," which is one of the anti-virus programs you guys told me to use. But the program doesn't appear in my Control Panel add/remove programs list--because I don't actually have the program on my computer, I just installed the activex control that allows the program to run. (I also installed activex controls not only for the streamlined online versus of Panda Active Scan, but also the BitDefender and TrendMicro programs you suggested--so I suspect that once I manage to remove the activex control for EZ Antivirus the Panda Platinum 2006 installation might balk again and ask me to remove Bitdefender and TrendMicro programs as well, which would mean again learning how to delete their activex controls (I'm assuming!), since those programs are also not on my drive and don't appear in add/remove programs.
btw I'm guessing here, that in each case it's the activex controls that I need to learn how to uninstall.
(odd thing is, I can reinstall the earlier version of Panda Platinum2006, which I downloaded and installed last week, just fine; it's just the newer version which I downloaded and tried to install today that demands I get rid of EZ Antivirus. so at least I'm protected again having re-installed older version of program).
(silly story: why install newer version: they garbled my order and I could not register the version I originally downloaded though I could update it; but I couldn't do other stuff like configure update options etc w/o a username and password, which I couldn't get. The product is great but the support is awful, so it took around 8 emails back and forth, in circles, before I finally got someone to send me the bleepin username and password. HOWEVER, these will only work if I download the newer version of the program. good side is that while I bought the product for 3 months [for $25 U.S.] they are throwing in an extra 3 months free for my troubles--another reason I want to update as I'm pretty sure that only applies to new program--username and passwords don't work when I paste them in to older version)
hope this isn't to long or complicated an email.
I'm gonna send this and then, just in case, send you a hijackthis log in next email.
thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide!
best,
Tenney
"help and support" gone missing
Crunchie:
more or less unrelated issue. The "help and support" file, or whatever file would be opened by clicking on that, seems to have gone missing or corrupt: clicking on that option in start menu doesn't open the help and support window. I have an emachines computer here at home and I THINK that my computer has an emachines-modified, proprietary version of "help and support" rather than the default windows one, though I can't remember for sure. Also my computer came with an emachines proprietary restore cd and no Windows Xp cd.
I did a chat w an emachines guy who first told me to reformat the system (!) but then said I should try the Run command "sfc/scannow", which didn't run, so I tried just "sfc" which did run but on reboot didn't fix anything.
any idea how I can get my "help and support" stuff to work again? I do actually use it from time to time when I've got a problem, or to make a new Restore Point or access an old one, etc.
can run a new hijackthis if you want but the problem predates the one I pasted in right above which I ran a few minutes ago.
thanks for all your help again, btw. how to repay? I could recommend a really good Australian zen teacher, but you're probably not in the market for one--?
anyway thanks!
best,
Tenney (Tucson, formerly of NYC)
Registry Scan log for "etrust": says there are 17 results
REGEDIT4
; RegSrch.vbs © Bill James
; Registry search results for string "eTrust" 11/4/2005 11:16:32 AM
; NOTE: This file will be deleted when you close WordPad.
; You must manually save this file to a new location if you want to refer to it again later.
; (If you save the file with a .reg extension, you can use it to restore any Registry changes you make to these values.)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{00AAC56B-CD44-11D0-8CC2-00C04FC295EE}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{189A3842-3041-11D1-85E1-00C04FC295EE}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{1A6631C0-3EA2-11D1-AE01-006097C6A9AA}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{5555C2CD-17FB-11D1-85C4-00C04FC295EE}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{573E31F8-AABA-11D0-8CCB-00C04FC295EE}]
"$Function"="HTTPSCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{573E31F8-DDBA-11D0-8CCB-00C04FC295EE}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{64B9D180-8DA2-11CF-8736-00AA00A485EB}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{7801EBD0-CF4B-11D0-851F-0060979387EA}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{C6B2E8D0-E005-11CF-A134-00C04FD7BF43}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{D41E4F1D-A407-11D1-8BC9-00C04FA30A41}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{D41E4F1F-A407-11D1-8BC9-00C04FA30A41}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}]
"$Function"="WintrustCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers\Trust\Certificate\{FC451C16-AC75-11D1-B4B8-00C04FB66EA0}]
"$Function"="GenericChainCertificateTrust"
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1332812118-2425046602-1847274561-1010\Software\Google\NavClient\1.1\History]
"remove eTrust antivirus active x controls"=hex:80,7f,69,43
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1332812118-2425046602-1847274561-1010\Software\Google\NavClient\1.1\History]
"remove eTrust antivirus activex controls"=hex:85,7f,69,43
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1332812118-2425046602-1847274561-1010\Software\Google\NavClient\1.1\History]
"remove activex control for eTrust EZ Antivirus"=hex:4a,86,69,43
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1332812118-2425046602-1847274561-1010\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant\ACMru\5603]
"001"="eTrust EZ Antivirus"
system restore & help & support; eTrust & Panda installation
1. ran the restore help and support script you pointed me to. it got me somewhere but not all the way there; now clicking on help and support, instead of just generating nothing, generates the message that the file "helpctr.exe" can't be found; searching for it does locate the compressed file "HELPCTR.EX_" at C:\windows\I386, but so far I can't uncompress the file. what next? (I guess I could just google "uncompress HELPCTR.EX_"?)
2. managed to open system restore some other way but thanks for your pointing me to msconfig as a way. anyway deleted the 4 registry entries to "etrust" and will try again to install Panda updated program. if I get the same error message when installing new version of Panda maybe I will do a reg search for "EZ" and send you any results; or will let you know if no results
thanks again!