how to temporaily disable Nod32?

Hi,

My PC currently is not working. After boot and logging in, windows basically hangs. I can't start task manger, reboot, nothing. I need to do a hard reset. The PC starts up ok in Safe Mode though. One of the first things I need to check is if Nod32 is causing the problem. I cannot uninstall the program in Safe Mode though. What can I do in Safe Mode in order to uninstall or disable Nod32?

The reason I would like to investigate Nod32 is because at one point I encountered this error:
Failure - Security Options
Login process has failed to create the security options dialog

I'm using Vista Home Premium (32bit).

thx

 

Uninstall NOT from Control Panel -> Programs and feautures but from Start -> All Programs -> ESET -> ESET NOD32 Antivirus -> Uninstall


If you want to just disable NOD32 , not complete uninstall ->
1) In Safe Mode , goto Start
2) Type Services in the Start search line
3) Enter them with Administrative rights
4) In the list , find the ESET service
5) Right click the ESET Service
6) From the drop-down menu , change the service status to "Disabled" and confirm with OK

Restart the computer . Now the ESET things are completely disabled . In order to restart NOD32 , goto Services (can be done in Normal mode , too) and change again the status of the service to "Automatic" . Reboot after that . Before any future experiment , I would strongly advise you make sure you are running ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0.672 and that no other security product is installed/active.

 

Thanks! I didn't know you could modify the services in Safe Mode.

cheers
s

 

You are welcome

Keep us informed

 

shmish i think you got my same problem, maybe related to latest automatic update, but I got Win XP with SP3
I solved momentanealy by turning off realtime protection

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=220204

 

Well I think there is a good chance that it is Nod32 auto update. I had tried a system restore and that didn't work. The core hardware is obviously ok because Safe Mode works. So my guess is something that has a service running at start up, and somehow changed in the last 12 hours. That's all speculation at this point, but I'll update this thread with info later tonight.

s

 

Yup, turning off the Eset Nod32 service got my PC running again.

How will I know when to start Nod32 again. Just check the Eset website everyday to see if they've updated the engine?

cheers

 

If it was the same problem posted here
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=220188&page=3
the new update bug fixed is out