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    Un auth.uninstal of avg antivirus on a workstation

    Good morning guys and gals,
    I work at a plant nursery in the Netherlands were someone did a illegal uninstal of avg antivirus on a work station(we have no admin to control things)I checked the log of the windows xp pro to see how late it was done.
    I only found out the last day it was still working.
    Is there a way to find out the time it was uninstalled?
    Grtz and thanks.

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    Senior Member nihil's Avatar
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    Hi there HotSpot,

    I am not aware of any logging in XP that would tell you when something was uninstalled.

    The most certain tool for this is eNcase, which is a law enforcement forensics tool. It is very expensive but you might be able to get a time limited trial.

    Otherwise I would suggest that you look at data recovery tools which should find the deleted application and give you "last modified" information, which should be the time and date of deletion.

    //off topic

    I work at a plant nursery in the Netherlands
    Do you sell cacti and succulents, and do you export to the United Kingdom?

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    Smile

    Thx nihil!
    EnCase would be nice.(no money)
    Data recovery would do the trick,i think.
    Thx thx

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    Hi there HotSpot,

    I think that you need to look at your user profiles and permissions?

    What I don't understand is why someone would want to uninstall the anti virus? generally you would just turn it off?

    That got me thinking (yeah I know, but it does happen sometimes) I use AVG, and it currently wants to update itself from version 7.5 to 8.0

    Is it possible that this uninstallation might be the result of a failed upgrade attempt?

    Just a thought

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    We think,someone trying to harm the guy who s playing our admin his good name(wich he isn t officially)
    And maybe a failed update from 7.5 to 8.0,but it looked like avg was never installed(no map left over on c)is this pos.after a failed update?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HotSpot
    We think,someone trying to harm the guy who s playing our admin his good name(wich he isn t officially)
    And maybe a failed update from 7.5 to 8.0,but it looked like avg was never installed(no map left over on c)is this pos.after a failed update?
    Someone trying to do harm could do a whole lot worse than installing AVG.
    “Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” — Will Rogers

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    You might try looking in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT in the Registry (run Regedit) a lot of applications don't totally clear their registry entries when you uninstall them

    The entries start with "AVG" and if there is a 7 then that is AVG 7.5

    In theory a failed update could have the effect described, as it would uninstall the old version first.

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    thx guys for all the info....i think,we wait en see if this also happens without updating to another version.Grtz all

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    Hi HotSpot,

    I have just done the update and it does uninstall 7.5 first. I then ran a file recovery tool and it did show the old file and when it got deleted.

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    Try looking in system restore. Usually things such as installation or uninstallation are recorded there.

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