Ahhhhhhh! I'm trying to uninstall Avira, but it's stuck at the "Stopping Components" part, and it's been like that for a few minutes. Is it supposed to be like that?
Still nothing almost been like that for more than 10 minutes now! HELP!
Try turning off the avira guard first via right click option on taskbar icon.
Also try uninstalling in safe mode.
The Avira guard icon disappeared when I started to uninstall it. Should I exit out of the installer from Task Manager? Like with End Process?
Do you mean it's sort of... stuck?
Yep, that's exactly it!
Now it's been stuck for more than 20 minutes. HELP! What is going on?
I think you are going to have to end the uninstall if it's frozen. No cancel button?
Try via the taskmanager and then reboot and see what the situation is.
There wasn't any cancel button, so I ended the uninstall process with Task Manager and rebooted. It looks like nothing happened, because Avira starts up like nothings happened. So what do I do now?
I have an idea. Should I first disable the Avira guard, like you said, and then should I run that Avira AntiVir Removal Tool from Ishan's topic? That might work.
Btw, the uninstaller for Avira wasn't frozen. It was just stuck in that same place for more than 20 minutes, and it wasn't using up any System Usage.
There wasn't any cancel button, so I ended the uninstall process with Task Manager and rebooted. It looks like nothing happened, because Avira starts up like nothings happened. So what do I do now?
Boot into safe mode and try uninstalling from there.
It worked! Thanks Hazel!
I knew you'd manage it
Okay, here goes my review on MSE:
1. To start off, the XP installer for MSE was quite small compared to all of the other AV companies. It was only somewhere in the 7 megabyte range.
2. Installation was very quick, and it did not require a system restart, and it automatically starts up MSE once it's installed and starts updating. I also checked how much disk space it uses, and to my surprise, it only uses somewhere in the 8 megabyte range!
3. After I installed and updated (for the first time update after installing, it took a few minutes), I restarted my computer, and everything seems as fast as usual, no slowdowns. Also, there isn't any splash screen for MSE when you log in to your computer (I've never liked splash screens).
4. At the moment, it's only running one process, named "MsMpEng.exe", and it's using somewhere in the 40 megabytes of memory range.
5. It's very unintrusive, and so far, I'm not noticing any system slowdowns at all.
6. Love the GUI. It's very simple, and doesn't confuse you with a lot of complicated things.
7. It caught all of the EICAR test viruses.
8. I haven't noticed any system boot-up slowdowns.
Overall: I like this AV, and since it comes with a WebGuard (unlike Avira), I think I'll be sticking to this one for a while. I'll update this post with new things if I find them or remember them.
New Info: I found out that there is another process from MSE, so in total, there are two processes, and the second process, named "msseces.exe" isn't noticeable at all and it only uses 5 megabytes of memory.
Another piece of new info: I was working normally on my PC today, and I just went to Task Manager to check the mem usage of MSE, and the main process MsMpEng.exe is only using 33 megs of memory, and the second process msseces.exe is only using about 3 megs of memory. That's quite small compared to most AVs!
Thanks for the review of it Icedrake, I only wish it would install properly on my system but I'll have to wait for the final release.
Yeah, you should give this one a try. It'll be one more AV to compete with for all of the big AV companies, Avast, Avira, AVG, ESET etc.
Nice write up Ice
Keep it up Drake!
I think this will be a good competition for Avira, Nod32, Avast, etc.
I'll still wait for the AV - Comparatives though. Maybe finally, I'll ditch my Nod32.. Which I've been using for 3 years now.
Edit: I've noticed Microsoft's really working 'er ass off this time Only if they could make IE better. A total Revamp is what's needed.
Edit: I've noticed Microsoft's really working 'er ass off this timeOnly if they could make IE better. A total Revamp is what's needed.
I agree with you.
Btw, nice review Ice.
Thanks for all of the nice comments! I'll edit this post with a few screenies first, so you guys can check out the program for yourselves.
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Okay now I have a question for MSE: Does MSE have a web shield/guard type thing?
I want to ask that question on the link that Hazel gave (Clicky!), but I don't have a MSN Hotmail/Live account, so I can't ask that question, and I don't feel like making a whole new email to ask a simple question. So, if anyone here has a Hotmail email, can you please ask my question: "Does MSE have a webshield/guard type protection?"
Thanks,
Ice
Okay now I have a question for MSE: Does MSE have a web shield/guard type thing?
Why don't you find out for yourself? eicar test
If your browser navigates to a blank page that says:
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
then you don't have a web guard/shield.