Kaspersky conflict?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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My kaspersky trial ran out so i decided to reinstall avast (i like it better anyways.) after compleatly uninstalling kaspersky and reinstalling avast, I get the error message telling me avast on access scanner cannot start due to kaspersky on access scanner running. This is not true because i fully uninstalled, looked through my regestry and deleated all enteries concerning kaspersky, there are no running processes or any startup items concerning kaspersky that i can recognize.

I guess i need to know either what is remaining that makes avast think kaspersky is still there, or a way to override avast detecting this conflict.

error.log:

9/18/2005	10:53:59 AM	1127058839	SYSTEM	1452	AAVM - initialization error: Instant Messaging provider: cannot start because 'Kaspersky Anti-Virus' is active!, 00000000.  
9/18/2005	10:54:00 AM	1127058840	SYSTEM	1452	AAVM - initialization error: P2P provider: cannot start because 'Kaspersky Anti-Virus' is active!, 00000000.  
9/18/2005	10:54:00 AM	1127058840	SYSTEM	1452	AAVM - initialization error: Standard Shield provider: cannot start because 'Kaspersky Anti-Virus' is active!, 00000000.  
9/18/2005	11:02:55 AM	1127059375	SYSTEM	1524	AAVM - initialization error: Instant Messaging provider: cannot start because 'Kaspersky Anti-Virus' is active!, 00000000.  
9/18/2005	11:02:56 AM	1127059376	SYSTEM	1524	AAVM - initialization error: P2P provider: cannot start because 'Kaspersky Anti-Virus' is active!, 00000000.  
9/18/2005	11:02:56 AM	1127059376	SYSTEM	1524	AAVM - initialization error: Standard Shield provider: cannot start because 'Kaspersky Anti-Virus' is active!, 00000000.

Thanks for help.

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Hi Smorg,

This conflict is a known problem, try searching Kaspersky in this forum there are several other posts on this subject. Hopefully one of them will answer your problem!

Cheers,

Thorny

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Yeah… apperently this is a problem for everyone thats used kaspersky. It seems the uninstaller misses some driver dlls that it leaves in the windows/system32 folder. even a scan of the regestry and harddrive with the keyword ‘kaspersky’ didn’t find the files and the only reason i could find them was because someone else found them. thanks for the help though :wink: this should really be faq’d…

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Run this utility to remove all traces of Kaspersky from the registry:
http://www.ice-kav.com/downloads/util/KAV_Registry_Clean.zip
ICE is a US distributor for Kaspersky.
Also see http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12079.15