Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware

Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by eptcyka on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:38AM (#37493431)

Their Teams uninstaller isn't quite as good - it just doesn't uninstall all the crap that the Teams malware has left behind. I still have a stray MS Teams audio device left on my macOS machine.

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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by Kuinox on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:47AM (#37493491)

Did you considered filling a bug report ?

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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by eptcyka on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @04:26AM (#37493795)

I didn't consider to file a bug report, I sent one.

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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by jurynulifcation on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:51AM (#37493517)

I actually believe in filing as few bug reports to Microsoft as possible, that way they don't have any signals about what to research. Hopefully it'll waste some amount of their resources, no matter how few.

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Re:Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishabl... by snkline on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @04:04PM (#37501051)

The Skype for Business "installer" is too good at removing stuff.

Skype for Business stop working, I run "Repair" on the installation, progress bar zips to completion. Skype for Business is now gone. Oh, and so is the rest of Microsoft Office.

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