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Uninstalr: Or how I tested all the Windows uninstallers and ended up making a new one
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<blockquote data-quote="Charismagic" data-source="post: 1057945" data-attributes="member: 26886"><p>@ Jouni Flemming, Macecraft</p><p>[USER=98343]@jv16[/USER]</p><p></p><p>Sorry to be a bit of a wet blanket here, but you need to really, really take a look at your software and run extensive tests before opening it to public access.</p><p></p><p>I ran Uninstalr 1.1 portable on a Win10 Pro machine with all current updates and patches, in a simulated environment. FYI, the VM environment just has the Win10 Pro image, completely updated, and the links from my normal environment with all the softwares installed.</p><p></p><p>It showed me two leftover programs apart from the normal installs. When I uninstalled the leftovers and rebooted, Windows wouldn't boot. Turns out they were critical Windows files.</p><p></p><p>I tried software install monitoring to install a new software and it crashed. Wonder if it has something to do with any registry snapshots/indexing done...couldnt find any trace of it though. I installed a software normally, and Uninstalr detected it during the scan. When I uninstalled it using Uninstalr, it deleted the exe used to install the software but left the installed exe and the program file in the program directory intact apart from associated registry entries.</p><p></p><p>Search function seems extensive, but choice of what is to be removed is limited.</p><p></p><p>3 VT vendors flag the executable and a basic sandbox analysis also throws up interesting results. Maybe the dev can clarify this?</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/29636f4a217c33dc5f3cbbd1bad3ce0c76eba1fc4bf2536213246d8adea9aeab/detection[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.filescan.io/reports/29636f4a217c33dc5f3cbbd1bad3ce0c76eba1fc4bf2536213246d8adea9aeab/ad2bd5b4-7d7c-4b1d-912b-c1b0eee4dbca[/URL]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Just to clarify, I am not a noob really on computer security....to all users, would advise caution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charismagic, post: 1057945, member: 26886"] @ Jouni Flemming, Macecraft [USER=98343]@jv16[/USER] Sorry to be a bit of a wet blanket here, but you need to really, really take a look at your software and run extensive tests before opening it to public access. I ran Uninstalr 1.1 portable on a Win10 Pro machine with all current updates and patches, in a simulated environment. FYI, the VM environment just has the Win10 Pro image, completely updated, and the links from my normal environment with all the softwares installed. It showed me two leftover programs apart from the normal installs. When I uninstalled the leftovers and rebooted, Windows wouldn't boot. Turns out they were critical Windows files. I tried software install monitoring to install a new software and it crashed. Wonder if it has something to do with any registry snapshots/indexing done...couldnt find any trace of it though. I installed a software normally, and Uninstalr detected it during the scan. When I uninstalled it using Uninstalr, it deleted the exe used to install the software but left the installed exe and the program file in the program directory intact apart from associated registry entries. Search function seems extensive, but choice of what is to be removed is limited. 3 VT vendors flag the executable and a basic sandbox analysis also throws up interesting results. Maybe the dev can clarify this? [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/29636f4a217c33dc5f3cbbd1bad3ce0c76eba1fc4bf2536213246d8adea9aeab/detection[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.filescan.io/reports/29636f4a217c33dc5f3cbbd1bad3ce0c76eba1fc4bf2536213246d8adea9aeab/ad2bd5b4-7d7c-4b1d-912b-c1b0eee4dbca[/URL] Just to clarify, I am not a noob really on computer security....to all users, would advise caution. [/QUOTE]
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