uninstall BitDefender - horrible

I’m testing some antivirus software (to compare performance and quality), first was BitDefender. I read some tests, and it has very good ranks. In my opinion it has some problems with windows xp sp3, but, now I noticed another problem.

I uninstalled (with add/remove programs) whole BitDefender (restarted my machine), and tried to install ESET NOD32. But NOD found that I have BitDefender installed, why?

First - registry…
deleted keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\BitDefender
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2\Programs\BitDefender 2008
in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache
C:\Program Files\BitDefender\BitDefender 2008\bdagent.exe
C:\Program Files\BitDefender\BitDefender 2008\IEShow.exe
C:\Program Files\BitDefender\BitDefender 2008\seccenter.exe
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BitDefender

It worked :)

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Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Security, Tips, windows

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