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Acronis has announced a new beta program, called Acronis Backup and Security 2010.  Before, Acronis was more focused on backup software, and is fairly well-known for its Acronis True Image software.

But now, it seems like they plan to move into the security realm (backup-ing is security-ish too, but I mean prevention/detection).

We are pleased to announce our first Beta release of a brand new product offering, Acronis® Backup and Security 2010. This product bundles Acronis True Image Home 2010, the recently announced Acronis Online Backup and a brand new product - Acronis Internet Security 2010. Together they form the most complete PC protection product on the market, combining full-featured, high-performance Internet security capabilities with both local and online backup and recovery.

Interesting, yes?

Acronis Backup & Security 2010 is the first home PC protection solution to protect you from both internal threats causing data loss and external threats which can lead to security vulnerabilities. It combines three essential elements into one product:

  1. Internet security (full protection from external viruses, spam and malware).
  2. Local backup (back up and recover any and all of your data very quickly using our patented, award-winning, disk-imaging technology)
  3. Online backup (keep important financial files, photos and other documents offsite in a heavily secured facility, readily accessible 24 hours a day from any location)

This may be something worth checking out, once it has moved out of beta stage.  The known issues are:

  1. You can activate the same build using the same serial number more than once (after subscription expiration).
  2. If Eset NOD32 v4.8 is installed in the system, starting it after Acronis Internet Security installation may cause BSOD.
  3. If you installed Acronis True Image Home in the trial mode, and then installed Acronis Internet Security and activated it (put in a serial number), Acronis True Image Home won't become activated automatically. You will need to activate it manually.
  4. After you installed Acronis Internet Security and activated it with a serial number, you'll still see a registration type as "Trial" in General–>Dashboard.
  5. The "Virus scan" checkbox in the backup options disappears from time to time.
  6. The excess vertical and horizontal scroll bars are present in the installer.
  7. Information on the number of days left till expiration can be viewed only in Acronis Internet Security, and not in Acronis True Image Home.
  8. Please note that the links in the application lead to incorrect pages of the Acronis web store, and you may purchase the future versions of the product that do not exist yet. Please, do not try to purchase this product.

And probably more, as with any software (especially a beta).

The installer is 350MB, which, in my opinion, is quite large.

Download here. (Or go here and register.)

~LaserWraith


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First of all, I admit that some of the info in this post came from one of Raymond's.  But this isn't a copy, just something extra.

Visit the link above to see his post.  About in the middle or lower, instructions are given to be able to uninstall programs that use the Windows Installer packager.

  1. Hit Win+R, type regedit and click OK.
  2. Navigate to the following location in registry editor:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Minimal\

  3. Right click at Minimal and select New > Key and name it as MSIServer
  4. The (Default) data for MSIServer should show (value not set). Double click on (Default) and type Service in the value data. Close the Registry Editor.
  5. Again hit Win+R, type services.msc and click OK.
  6. Look for Windows Installer on the list, double click on it and click Start.


Those are his directions.  He also has some lines you can type into a CMD window.

To make it easier, I made a batch file that you can just download and run.  See what is in it by right-clicking on it and then clicking "Edit".

~LaserWraith

If the file below isn't working, please try this one.
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