desperately need help - antivirus can't be installed

g3rry_888 · 11-01-2008, 05:24 AM

Hi,

I really need help with this problem I'm having on my laptop.
I had AVG antivirus and on one point it stopped working. it said "Application cannot run due to an error while verifying its electronic certification". The error message appear at startup, and everytime I try to run AVG control panel.
I try to restore my system to a point where I thought the problem hadn't appear, but it didn't work.
I then uninstalled AVG antivirus, and try to reinstall it, but everytime I click on the setup program, my computer restarted by itself (sometimes it shows blue screen with a bunch of error message, can't remember because it was gone in a flash and the computer restarted).
I try installing other antivirus (avast, avira antivir, etc), but the same problem appears, as if the computer is preventing me from installing an antivirus software (I say this because I have no problem installing other software).
I was frustrated and took a desperate step - formatting my laptop. I now have a fresh installed winXP.
It turns out that even this cannot solve my problem, I still cannot intall any antivirus software.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,
Gerry

**grumpygit** · 11-01-2008, 12:56 PM

Have you reloaded any other files from backup after the xp reinstall

11-01-2008, 05:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
g3rry_888 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP	desperately need help - antivirus can't be installed Hi, I really need help with this problem I'm having on my laptop. I had AVG antivirus and on one point it stopped working. it said "Application cannot run due to an error while verifying its electronic certification". The error message appear at startup, and everytime I try to run AVG control panel. I try to restore my system to a point where I thought the problem hadn't appear, but it didn't work. I then uninstalled AVG antivirus, and try to reinstall it, but everytime I click on the setup program, my computer restarted by itself (sometimes it shows blue screen with a bunch of error message, can't remember because it was gone in a flash and the computer restarted). I try installing other antivirus (avast, avira antivir, etc), but the same problem appears, as if the computer is preventing me from installing an antivirus software (I say this because I have no problem installing other software). I was frustrated and took a desperate step - formatting my laptop. I now have a fresh installed winXP. It turns out that even this cannot solve my problem, I still cannot intall any antivirus software. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Gerry

11-01-2008, 12:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
grumpygit T-Shirt Winner Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: hertford, england Posts: 4,716 OS: win xp pro sp3 My System Blog Entries: 2	Re: desperately need help - antivirus can't be installed Have you reloaded any other files from backup after the xp reinstall Last edited by grumpygit; 11-01-2008 at 01:01 PM. Reason: wrong advice given