AntiVir 7 Premium Open Beta reinstall problems

[joter]

I have a serious problem to reinstall Antivir 7 Premium beta.
Every time I run setup a message displays "Please reboot your system before using setup".
But after rebooting this happens again and again.
I tried to install Antivir 7 Personal free beta and same thing happens.
Other installations such those with Windows installer have no problems.

If any anyone can help...

Thanks in advance
joter

[ellison64]

Did you uninstall by clicking the setup.exe in the antivir program folder originally? ,because some earlier betas does not show in add/remove programs , and you have to click setup again to get the uninstall/repair option.If you manually deleted then maybe theres some corruption.If you installed to normal default directories you could copy and paste the uninstallstring in start>run and see if that works..

C:\Program Files\AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium\SETUP.EXE /REMOVE

The problem may be something else , but worth a check first.
ellison

[joter]

I had no problems to uninstall Antivir from Add/remove programs and I remember that there were no files left after uninstallation at Antivir directory.
My problem is that I can not reinstall it again, just after two days.
The problem occurs just after extracting SFX and run setup.exe.

Regards
joter

[ellison64]

All i can suggest is to try a good regcleaner , and also check windows>application data>antivir personal edition premium and see if the folder or any remnants are left there too.Im using 98 by the way so i am assuming the path is the same ,but you,ll have to check.
ellison

[joter]

No luck so far.
... and I thought I am an anvanced user.

Regards
joter

There's a reboot.txt located somewhere in your application data directory (i think it was application data).... just delete it and you'll be fine.

[joter]

Originally Posted by FRug

There's a reboot.txt located somewhere in your application data directory (i think it was application data).... just delete it and you'll be fine.

I think you mean
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
PendingFileRenameOperations
I had that in mind but it does not work.

Thanks
joter

[Stefan Kurtzhals]

There must be a zero byte length file called "reboot.txt", simply delete that. It is not a registry key.

[joter]

Originally Posted by Stefan Kurtzhals

There must be a zero byte length file called "reboot.txt", simply delete that. It is not a registry key.

The file "reboot.txt" does not exist anywhere on disk for sure.
It happened once and this file appeared, I think the first time but the deletion did not solve the problem.

Regards
joter

[joter]

Can I do anything else as I have a backup of the Antivir App directory and the Antivir Settings directory that were previously installed?

Regards
joter

[IBK]

AntiVir 7 Final (German) was released today.

[ellison64]

I noticed a large update today .Is the heuristics engine 2 part and parcel of the "final" build today and out of beta?
ellison

Actually i think it was restart.txt....

[joter]

Originally Posted by IBK

AntiVir 7 Final (German) was released today.

Where can I download it to test the installer.
Antivir 6 installer has no problems.

Regards
joter

[IBK]

antivir7.sk-webhosting.de

[joter]

Originally Posted by IBK

antivir7.sk-webhosting.de

Thanks IBK.
The new installer WORKS!
So finally I am sure that it was a bug in Antivir 7 beta Installer.
Waiting for the final English version.
Until then, maybe I will install Antivir 6.0 or I will go back to Kaspersky.

Regards
joter

[Sputnik]

The English version is now out as well!

http://antivir7.sk-webhosting.de/

[joter]

Here we are again.

I have downloaded the last version of Antivir PersonalEdition Premium 7, which now is the final (build 103 25/01/2006).
I had no problems with the installation, everything works fine, except again...

when trying to update, this message appears and stops the task

"the last update requires a restart of your computer" ...

... when restarting the same again ...



Regards
joter

[joter]

Some deinstallations and reinstallations and FIXED!

Thanks anyway.
joter