I’m wondering if the “Go-Back” program I have installed on this computer could be interfering in any way? It hasn’t ever interfered in the past with uninstalling other programs, but there’s a first time for everything!
Does anyone have any other ideas as to how to remove this dog of a program from my older computer so I can FINALLY install AVAST’s free anti-virus program?
Well, it’s not “Go-Back” that’s interfering with the uninstall of AVG. I disabled it and tried once again to remove AVG 7.5 in safe mode to no avail. Can’t any one help?
While I do not suggest this if you are not comfortable with editing the registry, that was the only way I could get AVG off my old computer many years ago. It was also a W98SE computer. I had to edit the registry for all entries of AVG removing them as I found them. This can be very time consuming.
Again, if you are not comfortable editing the registry, do not do the above suggestion.
I’m sorry that you’re facing this, I know it can get pretty frustrating. Just hang in there.
I agree with CharleyO on this one. If you are not comfortable with editing the registry, I would recommend taking your system to a computer repair shop and having a technician perform this. However, if this is not affordable or if the shops you speak with will not work with on this system, here is an online tutorial that will help describe the process. Be extremely careful, proceed at your own risk! I would advise backing up any files that you may want and to obtain a legal (for your computer, OEM is not legal in certain circumstances) copy of Windows 98 or a restore CD (from your computer’s manufacturer) if you don’t already have one. You might not be able to clear out all the entries but it might be enough to where you can run the uninstall utility which should.
@Corday: Hi, Your link is not working at this point in time, “the webpage cannot be found” (HTTP 404) error comes up.
Although I cannot vouch for it’s detection or removal capabilities (or really anything else about it ;)) as I have no experience with it, A Chinese AV, Rising Antivirus Free Edition claims to support Windows 98, and comes with a thumbs up from West Coast Labs and VB.
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / XP / Me / 2000 / 98 and Windows Server 2008 and 2003.
Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.
And where did you get this news, the only official notice was something on the web site some time ago that support would be at least to the end of this year (2009) ?
That hasn’t been updated or a final date confirmed as far as I’m aware. One senior Alwil menber has posted his personal thoughts that support for avast 4.8 is likely to continue for 6-12 months after avast 5.0 is released (which can’t be used by win9.x or winME). If that turns out to be true then that would by association mean support for win9.x would also continue as it currently is in 4.8.
So all is not lost, but it really is time to start looking to replace win9.x as there are fewer and fewer applications supporting it and more so security applications. Even MS the creator dropped it many years ago.
Did you not read the topic’s title, Lidarose has win98 and as such can’t install avast 5 as old OSes aren’t supported. It isn’t an issue about old systems, but one of Old OSes.
