Experience wanted...
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:37 pm
With a tool downloaded from some computer magazin's website (must have been chip.de) I accidentaly downloaded and installed Lavasoft Webcompanion and Lavasoft TCP Service. I deinstalled it immediately after I noticed this, but the uninstall routine didn't remove every part of the software. I didn't care about this for a long time because it didn't interfere what I was doing on my PC.
But now Steam doesn't work anymore since it's last self-update. The client starts but instantly closed again. I already wrote to Steam support and sent them some crash reports and they said this happens because of an old or bad version of LavasoftTCPService.dll, which is one of the parts the uninstaller left in the system.
Now I already tried to remove every little piece of this shitty program manually, I even searched the registry line by line and removed everything regarding Lavasoft TCP Service, and I tried some removal tools and cleaned out about 95% (just a guess ) of all the crap that was left by the uninstaller. But the last 5% are so persistent, I can't get rid of them, no matter what I try The main programm parts are gone, the folders are deleted, the service isn't running anymore in Windows and all dll files from the folder windows/system32 are gone. But from somewhere it is still started everytime during Windows start
Does anybody have experience with this Lavasoft shit or an idea or a tool that I can try to make the last not findable parts disappear?
But now Steam doesn't work anymore since it's last self-update. The client starts but instantly closed again. I already wrote to Steam support and sent them some crash reports and they said this happens because of an old or bad version of LavasoftTCPService.dll, which is one of the parts the uninstaller left in the system.
Now I already tried to remove every little piece of this shitty program manually, I even searched the registry line by line and removed everything regarding Lavasoft TCP Service, and I tried some removal tools and cleaned out about 95% (just a guess ) of all the crap that was left by the uninstaller. But the last 5% are so persistent, I can't get rid of them, no matter what I try The main programm parts are gone, the folders are deleted, the service isn't running anymore in Windows and all dll files from the folder windows/system32 are gone. But from somewhere it is still started everytime during Windows start
Does anybody have experience with this Lavasoft shit or an idea or a tool that I can try to make the last not findable parts disappear?