My dad recently gave me an old laptop his office was throwing away, but it came with ESET's NOD32 antivirus software on it. Normally this would be a good thing, but it was preventing me from visiting certain websites because it "suspected" they had a virus, and I needed a password to uninstall it which I did not know. However, I found a way to uninstall it without the password.
I hope this helped!
- Reboot your computer in Safe Mode. (press F8 before the Windows logo appears.)
- Select Safe Mode (or Safe Mode with Networking if you don't want to print this out)
- Log in as Administrator (this might not be necessary, but it's what I did.)
- Click the Start menu and right-click My Computer
- Click Properties, then go to the Advanced tab
- Click Environment Variables
- Under User Variables, click Add
- Type "DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES" for the variable name, and "1" for the value (without quotes).
- Click OK, and then click the Hardware tab.
- Click Device Manager.
- In the new window that appears, go to View>Show hidden devices
- Uninstall the following devices (Action menu>Uninstall): eamon, eadrv, epfwtdir, and any of them that say "nod32"
- Close Device Manager and the System control panel
- Open your NOD32 installation directory (usually C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus)
- Delete everything in there except shellext.dll (if you can, it's okay to delete shellext.dll, but for me I couldn't delete it.) Alternatively, move it to another folder.
- Go to Start>Run, and type "msconfig".
- Click the Startup tab.
- Scroll down until you see "egui", and uncheck it.
- Click OK and reboot.
I hope this helped!