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3. Install Kaspersky Antivirus On Windows 10

Kaspersky Internet Security and Anti-Virus are highly popular and well respected commercial security products and a recommended choice if you prefer more functions and protection than a free antivirus program offers. We’ve also previously shown you how to get a year’s license for Kaspersky Antivirus 2013 completely free. A major issue with most security software has always been they rarely uninstall themselves cleanly from your computer and can also have issues on installation as well because they need to hook deep into your system.

Kaspersky Antivirus and Internet Security products have commonly suffered with an error during the setup process which prevents install and asks for a reboot to continue. After restarting, the problem remains:

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Installation interrupted

Installation ended prematurely because of an error.

Although it isn’t as prevalent as a few years back, people still encounter the error and obviously making sure you succeed in getting your paid protection working is important. Here we show you a selection of solutions we have found to get around this error and allow your Kaspersky product to continue its installation. This applies to all versions of Kaspersky Internet Security and Antivirus, and possibly PURE.

1. A Leftover Registry Key

There is a registry key which can be created when uninstalling an older version of Kaspersky and for some reason this key gets left behind after a reboot. You need to remove a key called avp**_post_uninstall from your registry. The ** corresponds to a version number of Kaspersky which never removed the key. Just follow the simple steps below to remove the key from the registry.

1. Hold Win key+R or go to Start -> Run, type regedit and click OK.

2. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun

3. Expand Run and look for a registry key avp**_post_uninstall. For example, you might find one called avp12_post_uninstall.

4. Right click on the avp**_post_uninstall key and select Delete.

5. Now try to install the Kaspersky product as normal and hopefully the error message has disappeared during install.

This is a quick and simple fix and worth checking, even if you’re sure you haven’t installed Kaspersky previously. Note that this registry key won’t show up in most startup tuning tools such as CCleaner or Glary Utilities and needs to be checked manually.

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2. Traces of a Previous Security Package

One of the most common causes for the “Installation ended prematurely because of an error” message is the Kaspersky setup has found traces from another security package that is getting in the way and stopping the installation going any further. Although Kaspersky products have recently been much better at detecting these issues, they can still cause the install process to fail.

If you know what security package(s) you’ve had installed before

It’s quite easy to use a removal tool to clear up any leftovers from a previous antivirus package if you know what’s been installed. Download and run the tool for each brand you’ve had installed on the computer, this also includes previous versions of a Kaspersky product. We have a Comprehensive List of 26 Uninstallers and Removal Tools for Internet Security and Antivirus Software where you can download and run individual removal tools. Kaspersky also have their own antivirus removal tools webpage with similar tools and recommendations.

If you don’t know what’s been installed before

If you have no idea what security software has been installed before, you obviously can’t download and run a specific removal tool. Thankfully a program called AppRemover is able to detect and remove leftover data from many security applications including the most popular of Norton, McAfee, Bitdefender, Eset, AVG, Avira, Avast and of course Kaspersky.

Download and run the AppRemover executable and wait for the results of the system scan. If any security software leftovers are detected you’ll have the opportunity to select them for removal. After a reboot you can try to install your Kaspersky product again.

3. A System Cache File

This solution has been known to work in several cases and is also mentioned in a Kaspersky help page. The problem can be caused by the file INFCACHE.1 which could contain corrupted information. INFCACHE.1 is used to store information about drivers and inf file locations. To remove this file:

For Windows XP

It’s easier to delete the INFCACHE.1 file in XP because it’s not protected by the system. Press Win key+R and type cmd into the run box to open a command prompt, then type:

del C:Windowsinfinfcache.1

Reboot the system and retry the Kaspersky installation. You can also simply just browse to the file in Explorer although “show all files” needs to be enabled in folder view options to see it.

For Windows Vista and 7

In Windows Vista and 7 INFCACHE.1 is protected by system permissions and can’t simply be deleted, you need to be the owner first. Download Take Ownership which is a right click menu entry to gain ownership of files and folders. Double click the reg file in the archive to import the data into your registry, then navigate to:

C:WindowsSystem32DriverStore

Right click on INFCACHE.1 and select “Take Ownership” from the context menu. Then delete the INFCACHE.1 file.

The other file in the zip archive can be used to remove the Take Ownership entry if you have no more use for it. Reboot the system and try the install again. INFCACHE.1 is not present in Windows 8/8.1.

4. Other Security Software Causing a Conflict

While Kaspersky products are now better at detecting currently installed and incompatible software, problems can still arise for lesser known software and cause the installation to fail. It has also been the case that other third party products are also sometimes missed or wrongly detected. Comodo Firewall has been known to cause issues with Kaspersky Antivirus because it can get detected as Comodo Internet Security which includes the antivirus component.

Also other antivirus, firewall, antimalware or antispyware currently installed may be an issue. The best solution is to completely uninstall any other security software you may have on the system and try to reinstall Kaspersky. Optionally use the dedicated removal tool as well from solution #2. Then if all goes well and Kaspersky installs correctly, reinstall the other software again.

5. The HOSTS File and the Registry

Although these last two methods are not known to be a major factor in ridding yourself of the installation error, they are recommendations from the Kaspersky forum so are worth trying if all else fails.

We recommend you simply download Microsoft Fix It 50267 which will automatically reset the HOSTS file on Windows XP, Vista and 7. Windows 8 users will have to do it manually, this Microsoft support page tells you how to reset the HOSTS file for any Windows OS manually back to default.

Which tool is the best for registry cleaning is mostly a matter of personal opinion. For less aggressive cleaning we would recommend CCleaner or Glary Utilities although to remove more obscure registry keys, something more powerful may be needed. PowerTools Lite 2013 is one of the most thorough registry cleaners available and recommended for this task.

1. Download PowerTools Lite 2013, install and launch the program.

2. Click “Registry Cleaner”. If you have no security software currently installed, also click “Additional Safety” and untick “Antivirus and Antimalware software” and “Firewall software”, this tells the program not to ignore security software when scanning.

3. Hit Start and let the scan complete, press Ctrl+A to select all entries in the list and then click Fix. Close the program and try to install Kaspersky after rebooting.

If you encounter any other issues which you suspect may be due to the registry clean, PowerTools saves backups of all the fixes so you can restore the selected keys.

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Failed Virus Scan when trying to download a ‘safe’ security update file from Microsoft. I have uninstalled all antivirus files and deleted registry keys … and unselected the Protect you and your computer from dangerous sites in the Advanced section of Chrome. Turned off Windows XP firewall yet still can’t DL files. What is causing this? TIA for any suggestions.

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Thanks, been having major problems with one laptop after an infection.

This solution worked for me

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When I ran into this problem, I did live chat with Earthlink support 4 times, no results. Gave up on that – fortunately, after some searching, found this post. IT WORKED!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Thanks a lot dude, this post really helped me!

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Thanks a million…
I have same problem when i uninstall Kaspersky internet security 7.0 and then install kaspersky antivirus 7.0

I follow your instruction and it works..

Thanks again

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Thanks so much for this Raymond. I cannot begin to tell you how much time I spent trying to ‘persuade’ Internet Security 2009 to install – very frustrating as I had only just un-installed Version 7.0 after using it successfully for one year!!

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thx raymond ,it”s works..gj

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Thanks a lot :)

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Genius!
the world works better with people like you.

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Excellent Job! Your instructions were very useful.

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just want to say thanks I followed your instructions on how to install kaspersky after getting the installation error form upgrading from version 6.0 to 7.0 thanks a million.

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Thank You for instructions!

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Thank you so much for this! I had this problem, and your instructions worked perfectly.

Thanks! :D

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Many many thanks.

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Great post

Thank you Rymond

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Of course, there are many good free antivirus packages around, but if somebody was to ask us which commercial antivirus or internet security package we would recommend to people, without a doubt, one of those at the top of the list would be Kaspersky. The detection rates are great and always among the best in A/V comparison tests, it’s loaded with features and doesn’t slow down your computer too much.

Something that has become popular in recent years are antivirus rescue CD’s that you can boot straight to without booting into Windows to help remove the most severe malware infections from your computer. Most of the major players in antivirus software have rescue CD’s available that you can use, the problem being some of the paid ones require you to actually have the full product to be able to download and use it. Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 is different though, because you get all the great malware detection and removal abilities Kaspersky offers, and it’s completely free for anyone to use!

The Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 comes as an ISO image which you can burn to an empty disc and boot up the computer with it. With USB flash drives becoming so common nowadays, and all newer generation motherboards supporting booting from USB (read this post if your BIOS doesn’t support USB booting), it makes sense to write the Kaspersky Rescue Disk onto a USB flash drive. Here’s a selection of ways do it.

First and foremost, you need to download the Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 ISO file to your computer, file size is around 280MB.

Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10

Then you need a tool to put the Kaspersky ISO onto USB flash drive.

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1. Use the Official Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk

Like developers of other antivirus software, Kaspersky has realized many people want to take advantage of USB and install the rescue disk onto flash drive, so have provided their own USB maker tool.

1. Download the Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk Maker. Run rescue2usb.exe and click Install to extract the files to a folder of your choice. Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk Maker will automatically run.

2. Insert the USB flash drive into your computer and the program will detect it and the drive should appear in the the USB Medium drop down.

3. Click the Browse button and locate the Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 ISO which you’ve downloaded previously.

4. Click Start and the tool will setup the USB drive with the rescue disk. If your flash drive isn’t already formatted with the FAT or FAT32 file systems, you will be prompted to let the tool format your USB flash drive as NTFS isn’t supported.

Although this tool will work in the majority of cases, if it doesn’t work for you or you’d like to use something different, here are some other tools that will do the job.

2. Install Kaspersky Rescue Disk with Universal USB Installer / YUMI

Universal USB Installer and YUMI both have a trick up their sleeve when it comes to installing the Kaspersky Rescue Disk because they can download the ISO for you. The only real difference between these 2 tools is YUMI allows you to setup a multiboot USB, they look and perform just about the same. The instructions below are for Universal USB Installer.

1. Download Universal USB Installer and then run the program. Alternatively, if you want to setup a multiboot USB, Download YUMI.

2. In Step 1, select Kaspersky Rescue Disk from the drop down menu. If you don’t have the ISO yet you can check the download box and it will automatically open your browser and begin the ISO download.

3. Press the Browse button and locate the ISO file which will then allow you to select the USB flash drive letter under step 3. An option is there to format the drive if it needs it (FAT or FAT32 is required).

4. Then simply Press the Create button and wait.

3. Use UNetbootin to Install the Kaspersky ISO to USB

On the face of it, UNetbootin has a useful function to download the Kaspersky Rescue ISO directly from the website, but unfortunately it doesn’t work at this time so you need to get the file manually.

1. Download UNetbootin and run the program.

2. Insert the USB flash drive and make sure it’s formatted to FAT32 as UNbootin won’t warn you that an NTFS formatted drive won’t boot the rescue disk.

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3. Click on the DiskImage button, then press the button to browse for the ISO file.

4. Make sure the Type is set to USB Drive, your USB flash drive letter is selected, then press OK to begin the write. UNbootin creates its own boot menu where you select either text mode or graphic mode but everything works the same.

Editor’s Note: There are plenty of other utilities to get the Kaspersky Rescue Disk onto USB, but these 3 methods are among the quickest and easiest ways to do it. XBoot and SARDU are a few other tools, although do be aware SARDU contains several adware options during install and needs to be setup with great care.

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Hi All,
use Kaspersky’s portable updater utility 3.0 on a clean pc and set it for downloading updates for Kaspersky rescue disk. then run it ”manually/on schedule ” as desired , at least on the day of troubleshooting ! if you don’t remove updates from the download location ,it should probably just update the definitions already present each time and no massive downloads, only updates to the updates ! then copy updates to a removable media. boot the problematic pc with Kaspersky rescue disk and use the removable media with updates by attaching it to the problematic pc & update kaspersky rescue disk installation from it. here we are going to use two removable medias, one for kaspersky rescue disk installation and the second with updates. i don’t think it should matter if you prepare the media for kaspersky rescue disk with YUMI multiboot. i don’t know whether kaspersky rescue disk work for UEFI. but surely YUMI doesn’t , though YUMI UEFI Beta version is released ! Thanks & Regards.

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*PLEASE* don’t follow any of the instructions in this article.
Ugh.
Do so will only cause a long lists of problems:
1. You’ll need to constantly download massive “definitions files”.
2. You’ll need to connect your heavily infected computer to your network…. thus infecting many other machines.
3. You’ll need to save the updates to *EVERY* computer you try to fix.

The correct way is to:
Use Easy2Boot.
1. You can download the definitions and save them directly to the USB flash drive.
2. You *NEVER* have to connect a badly infected computer to ANY network.
3. The definitions travel with you… so you can fix as many computers as you need WITHOUT constantly
downloading the definitions again and again and again.

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I have been trying to get the rescue disk to boot off of the usb port on a surface pro running 8.1 for about 6 hours and it will not allow the disk to boot. None of the other Malware Company’s disks will boot either I might add. I don’t work with windows 8.1 much and apparently it just doesn’t like linux. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
jimmyboy01

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It’s probably related to the Secure Boot feature which prevents most Linux boot disks from working. I’m sorry I don’t know much about the Surface Pro but you could look in its BIOS if possible to see if Secure Boot can be disabled.

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Good job!! Thx Raymond :)

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Even if you use the Kaspersky Rescue Disk Maker, the updates are stored on the internal hard disk and not on the USB drive. This means when you boot from the USB drive on a different computer, you have to download the updates again (which are stored onto that computers internal HDD).
You can follow my blog post here to work around this (uses Easy2Boot which is a multiboot solution) so that the updates are stored on the USB drive:
rmprepusb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/adding-kaspersky-rescue-iso-to.html

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Now we can use other software to make Bootable USB use KAV rescure disk ISO. One is Sardu. I installed it with KAV & it work well.

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Thanks a lot raymond for this article. I have sandisk cruzer switch 16GB. I tried using rescue2usb but it always came up with a blank USB drive option (“please connect a USB drive” message). I have formatted the FD in FAT32 mode, and the OS already recognized it as a “healthy” FD (I also tried to write and read files with a successful result). I try using Universal USB Installer and whoala…. it works well. Thanks again.

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I also advise not to use imgBurn to create the rescue USB, it installs SnapDo which hijacks all of your browsers, if you’re not careful. I used Ubootnetin, which worked great. However, I still wasn’t able to clear ransomware virus from Win XP machine using Kaspersky Rescue USB, got kernel panic errors. I was able to clear the virus by burning a Kaspersy Rescue CD. This was after trying MANY other options, including Hitman. Kaspersky rescue CD did the trick, then I was able to finish it off with Anti MalwareBytes. Thanks.

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I just tried Avira, Emisoft, and Bitdefender on a computer that had the TDSS rootkit on it. None of them could get rid of it. I then used Kaspersky and it got rid if it. Good job Kaspersky!

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This is very useful. Thank you.

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Thanks very much ray.. :)

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Thank You Very Much, Dear Friend Raymond for precious information and hint…

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Thank you Raymond.

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Thank you….Raymond!!!

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This is great. Thanks Raymond.

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Thanks Raymond. Just what I was looking for.

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Bingo!! awesome article… keep it up…..

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Nice post!!! I was actually looking for this one. I have the Kaspersky Rescue Disk but very problematic for netbooks…Thanks Ray

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Thank you, Raymond, for this important information.
I’m going to prepare the USB rescue, hoping to never use it.

Hasson

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thanks for sharing this Ray :)

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Very useful! Thank you.

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Thanks for this very useful information.

JF

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