Cannot uninstall NOD32 from Server 2008

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  1. southsider

    southsider Registered Member

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    Since ESET has come out with a new product for servers I was attempting to do this upgrade on a couple of spare in-house servers before I go on to upgrade servers that are off-site or heavily used locally. Uninstall fails on both servers in the same way. It hangs up on "Uninstalling Drivers". After this, the only thing I can do is the manual uninstall via safe mode but that is not an option for my remote servers. I used the start menu uninstall option and even tried the right-click run as administrator but to no avail.
     
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    agoretsky Eset Staff Account

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    Hello,

    Which product and which version did you try on the test servers? Also, were the test servers running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2?

    Regards,

    Aryeh Goretsky
     
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    Both servers are running ESET NOD32 version 4.2.72.2
    Both are Windows Server 2008 R2
     
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    I confirm this uninstall issue for Windows Server 2008 R2.

    I happened to me on two separate servers a few weeks ago. I was uninstalling 4.2.x in order to be able to install ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Microsoft Windows File Server (4.5).

    What a mess! Normal uninstall through the OS froze at "removing drivers" I believe, and both machines locked up and had to have hard reset! I thought the first server was just a fluke, I couldn't believe it when it happened to the second machine. I had to reinstall 4.2 after the corrupt/partial uninstall, then restart, then use the uninstaller found in the eset folder, then restart, then install 4.5 and restart again! Not sure about what exactly fixed the issue, as I was freaking out after the lock up. But the complete reinstall and then uninstall of 4.2 seems to be the key.

    Never had that issue before and I run 50+ installs of 4.2.71. I think that 4.5 File Server is installed and running fine, but I really dont know if I was able to fully clean 4.2 off the machines.

    Hope this helps...
     
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    Thanks for the confirmation - glad to know I am not the only one running into this problem.

    I also had to do a hard restart on both servers when the uninstall failed. However, I was always using the uninstall in the ESET menu - I never tried the control panel uninstall as I understand that is not recommended by ESET. Did you get the uninstall to work when run from the menu? I tried that twice on both servers - once with "run as administrator" and once without - but no dice.

    Always had to hard start and then use manual uninstall in safe mode. That was the only way I could get it uninstalled. As it is, I have no way to uninstall from my remote servers.

    I also have installed and uninstalled ESET on many workstations and servers without problems - XP Pro, Server 2003, Windows 7, Vista too. But these are the first Server 2008 R2 machines I have attempted uninstall on.
     
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    That is the tool that I had to use to manually uninstall via safe mode when the uninstall in the ESET menu fails. This is the issue - I cannot use that tool remotely and I have 4 servers that will eventually need to be updated. I need a solution to the uninstall failures on Windows Server 2008 R2 rather than a workaround that only works with a hard restart and hands on the machine.
     
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