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The company that I work for right now is using ESET Smart Security for AV. We are switching over to Kaspersky on 1/1/2014. I’m trying to write a script to uninstall ESET via command line in quiet mode. I will be distributing this script to all the inventory in the company through Dell Kace.

So far this is what I have: msiexec “C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Smart Security\callmsi.exe” /i {4A18C875-B374-4868-B7EA-06CF2DD59FCC} /q

I have had no luck executing this script on my test machine. The uninstall target is as follows

“C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Smart Security\callmsi.exe” /i {4A18C875-B374-4868-B7EA-06CF2DD59FCC}

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? Thank you in advance.

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What about you try and execute the as an administrative user:

msiexec /x {4A18C875-B374-4868-B7EA-06CF2DD59FCC} /qn

if this fails…

  1. does your ESET have any settings that prevent uninstall or require a password to uninstall? if so, use your ESET console to disable these requirements.

  2. does Kaspersky include a competitor removal tool? I know a few other Endpoint Protection products that do ;0

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And if all else fails:

http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2289

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Hello AzRoN,

I would like to get silent uninstallation VB script to remove the following products.

ESET Endpoint Antivirus
ESET File Security
ESET NOD32 Antivirus
ESET Smart Security

Our clients are experiencing a lot of problems on uninstallations.

Can you provide me this ASAP,

Please sent the script yo “sudhapenki458@gmail.com”

I would wait for your quick response.

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I was able to get this working for a password protected install. Set the path to where you have the installer and provide your password.

MSIEXEC /uninstall X:\ESET\eea_nt64_enu.msi /qb REBOOT=“ReallySuppress” PASSWORD=“password”

RMDIR /S /Q “C:\Program Files\ESET”

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This option also works

for /F “tokens=3” %a in (‘reg query “HKLM\SOFTWARE\ESET\ESET Security\CurrentVersion\Info” /V ProductCode |findstr /ri “REG_SZ”’) do msiexec /x %a /qn REBOOT=“ReallySuppress” PASSWORD=“”