Warning: Kaspersky destroys Vista

[Slozz]

about 1.5 hour ago I decided to try Kaspersky Antivirus on my Vista Ultimate, Installation freezed at halfway, and so did my computer. I forced a restart, after the rollbar comes BSOD, I restarted again, BSOD again, REPEATED.
I could only sneak into the system by safe mode, thats where I deleted the Kaspersky and all of its residues, I thought it'd work this time but same thing.
Literally it destroyed the system, no way in, and now I am back to XP.
Where did I go wrong? no idea. Should I condemn Kaspersky or Vista? I dunt know, I dunt care, here I am writing this post to publish a big WARNING: you might love Vista and Kaspersky, but they don't love each other.:mad:


spec is:
P5B Deluxe WiFi
Core 2 Duo E6600
XFX 8800GTS 320MB Extreme
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320G 16MB

[calebb]

What does your hardware situation look like?

The more details the better, but at the very least:

Power Supply
Hard Drive
Motherboard
Video Card(s)

[Gatticus]

Kaspersky is on the compatibility list so don't know why you had issues and others haven't.


http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List

[purefun65]

I'm running vista and kaspersky with no problems.:)

[simmons2]

Do you use the VISTA version ? Must be downloaded from Kaspersky. Post here when you need more info's.

simmons

[protias]

Isn't there an option to do "Last known good configuration" like in XP?

[tronmaster]

I am running Vista 32-bit and Kaspersky Anti-Virus no problem. Did you use the retail version? The retail version is not Vista compatible. You need to download the Vista version at Kaspersky's website.

Is there a repair version of Vista? If so, you may want to try that method.

[bellx1]

i'm also running vista 32-bit ultimate with kaspersky 6.0.2.614 with no problems

[crewzen]

Vista Ultimate 64 and KIS which I have been running for 3 weeks now and no problems.:p

you did download the right version I hope.

[Slozz]

Ok the BSOD disappeared too soon I couldnt read eveything but "dumping memory" and a percentage reading from 0%-100% by 5% a tick, whole thing stayed about 2 seconds and screen goes black to restart.

Seeing you guys are all fine with KIS it's probably that I had the incompatible version, but the situation scared me, I first thought my harddrive died because I heard a loud "clipping" sound from the HD when the installation freezed but later I could still copy and paste stuff in safe mode. I figured I'd deleted KIS in safe mode so I removed every folder of KIS, I even cleaned the registry manually in hope for a cure, nothing worked, I was out of solutions so I went back to XP.

Vista? probably 6 months later, for me.:confused: :confused:

[djnes]

Ok the BSOD disappeared too soon I couldnt read eveything but "dumping memory" and a percentage reading from 0%-100% by 5% a tick, whole thing stayed about 2 seconds and screen goes black to restart.

It's been a hard and fast rule since XP was released, that one of your first steps on a new build is to disable automatic reboots. If not, you're just hiding the troubleshooting information from yourself.

[Slozz]

It's been a hard and fast rule since XP was released, that one of your first steps on a new build is to disable automatic reboots. If not, you're just hiding the troubleshooting information from yourself.

how do you disable automatic reboot?

[djnes]

how do you disable automatic reboot?
I knew that was coming.

My Computer > Properties > Advanced Settings > Advanced > Startup And Recovery

Uncheck the Automatic Reboot.

[Slozz]

I knew that was coming.

My Computer > Properties > Advanced Settings > Advanced > Startup And Recovery

Uncheck the Automatic Reboot.


:cool: