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[WK2008]

It seems like all the Korean banking web sites want you to install nProtect on them, but if you already have anti-virus (etc.) protection, or even if you're taking that risk, then you may choose to avoid nProtect.

nProtect is a resource hog. If this is the 'cure,' I'd rather have the disease! No thanks.

Does anyone know of a way to fool these sites into thinking you have nProtect installed? Although most of these sites assume that (a) one uses Internet Explorer 5.5 - 6.0 (and not IE7 or IE8), and (b) that one happens to read Korean easily, there are still times that one may wish to use such an rude and inconvenient web site.

P.S. If you design Korean web sites, as I design English ones, learn how to be a better web site designer, and avoid the above issues.

[bassexpander]

We use a 2nd computer for installing this garbage. It doesn't get to reside on my main machine.

[hanguker]

I haven't found nprotect to mess with my resident AV because I believe it shuts down when you shut down IE. That is, it's a browser plugin.

However, I have found to to conflict with some of the many other Korean plug-ins, especially Xecure.

I've got so many Korean "BHO's" for IE it's scary. KVP, Nexon, Xecure, V3D...and maybe more!

The price of being wired up to Korea.

[WK2008]

I might be confused. I know that AhnLabs was installed along with either nProtect or maybe InisafeWeb.

Whatever it was, AhnLabs included about 6 different processes (beginning with Ahn*.* or AC*.*) that ran memory resident, and sometimes forced a reboot after my system had slowed to a crawl. A quick look at Task Manager (after I finally got it to run) showed the Korean software to blame.

Normal uninstall attempts via XP's Control Panel / Add or Remove Programs were circumvented by the nasty software, which somehow reinstalled itself. To finally remove it, I had to use Task Manager and do an "End Process" on all 6 (or so) processes. Only then was I able to get the Remove Programs to work. (Had that not worked, I'd have started editing my Registry by hand, but fortunately that wasn't needed.)

The whole thing makes me too nervous to ever trust a banking site that wants to install an ActiveX control. Somehow it gets permission (or gets me to consent) to install extra garbage that supposedly you need, but ends up being like Windows Vista. No thanks.

[cj1976]

Have you tried using a Virtual machine? I have a problem where my antivirus program constantly flags Nprotect as a virus. It makes logging into KB a real pain in the neck.
I'm going to install a virtual XP system using VMware and see how that goes.

[ulsanchris]

If you want to uninstall a program use revo uninstall. you can get it from cnet. It goes through and cleans your registry. It's a great program.