Disabling Anti-Virus from Device Manager

Lot of people always have trouble upgrading their operating system. They either get a Blue Screen of Death(BSOD) or Error Message box. There are million reasons why we might get that error message and one such reason is our anti-virus.

Here is a method to disable the anti-virus through Device Manager rather than the anti-virus application itself.

1) Start >> Run >> Type Devmgmt.msc

2) This will open device manager. Click on View >> Show Hidden Devices.

3) Expand the category which says Non-Plug and Play Drivers. If you look at the picture below, you will see that I have an exclamation mark next Panda File Shield Driver. Now this is where we need to look. Just like Panda(I have Panda Anti-Virus installed), you will find the following.

NAV OR SYM - Symantech or Norton.

The moment you find the driver for your anti-virus, right click on the file and click on disable.

4) Search for other files which fall under the same category and disable them and restart the computer.

There that's the other way you disable anti virus, when your normal application doesn't allow you to do that.

Spybot Search and Destroy 1.5.1.15

Spybot Search and Destroy searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. Many of these modules also transmit information, including your surfing behavior on the Internet. If it finds such modules, it can remove them. In most cases the host still runs fine after removing the spyware/adware.

Another feature is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited websites, opened files, started programs, cookies, all that and more can be cleaned. Supported are the three major browsers Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, and Opera.

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Your Home page never being changed

Some websites illegally modify your registry editor and set their website as default home page, to stop this,

1. Right-click on the Internet Explorer icon on your desktop and select "Properties".

2. In the "Target" box you will see "C:\Program Files\Internet

Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE".

3. Now by adding the URL of the site to the end of this it overrides any
Homepage setting in internet options:

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"