Installation Impossible Because Of Kaspersky

I'm having this problem too. My system was previously windows 7 (which was when Kaspersky was first installed) but was then upgraded to Windows 10.

I'm wondering if the upgrade might have left some remenants that BitDefender is checking for and the Kaspersky tools aren't removing.

I'm having this problem too. My system was previously windows 7 (which was when Kaspersky was first installed) but was then upgraded to Windows 10.

I'm wondering if the upgrade might have left some remenants that BitDefender is checking for and the Kaspersky tools aren't removing.

Download kavremover to fully uninstall kaspersky

Click "How to use the tool" --> "kavremvr.exe" run it, reboot your pc and install bitdefender.

This tool worked for me. OP is this the same version of the kaspersky removal tool that you tried and it didn't work?

Hi,

To overcome this issue please restart Windows and try again to install Bitdefender 2016. As soon as Bitdefender starts unpacking the installation (do not wait for the same notification to appear), do the following:

1. Click Start then type %TEMP% inside the Windows search bar and hit Enter on your keyboard.

2. Inside the 'Temp' folder that opens locate the folder RarSFX0 and then delete from this folder the file competitive.json

3. Now continue the Bitdefender installation.

Let us know how is everything going.

Hello. I am having the same problem but with BItdefender Total Security 2016.

I've already clean everything about Kaspersky, but I'm having the same message from Bitdefender.

How can I fix this?

Hi Kat,

If the above steps won't help you here's an easy fix:

1) Download remove_competitive.zip from [removed link]

Extract the content of the archive. The password is: 123

2) Run the resulted file remove_competitive.bat to clear the leftovers of the other security solution.

3) After this restart Windows, then try again to install Bitdefender.

Let me know if you require further assistance with this.

I can confirm that the above file works. Now bitdefender installs, but the next problem is that bdagent.exe does not create an autorun entry so after a reboot bd does not autostart. It seems some problem with the registry in combination with windows 10. I installed bd on a Win10 pro edition (kav uninstalled) without any problem. The Win10 home version is causing problems. There is a known bug with the registry editor in Win10 version 1511 in relation to long registrykeys > 255.

Since the kav uninstaller and remover program have problems removing the old registry keys and bd new install cannot create an autorun key it seems that the problem exists in the registry and possibly only under Win10 home. I wonder if other people with problems have these problems under a Win10 home edition.

I tried repairing and reinstalling bd and the bdagent, but the problem does not go away.

Any definitive solutions? I can't for the life of me get it to work.

I have tried all the suggestions on getting Antivirus Plus 2016 to download but keep getting the error message regarding Kapersky. The only option I did not try is the one addressed to Kat. Been working on this far too long and am extremely frustrated with BD. What's going on and how is one suppose to resolve this issue?