Re: Removing Outlook Express & NetMeeting

From: Clover Andrew (aclover@1value.com)
Date: 09/28/01 

Subject: Re: Removing Outlook Express & NetMeeting
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:30:30 +0200
Message-ID: <D58B0195B58937489E89124469E57CA249D981@EX1.1value.com>
From: "Clover Andrew" <aclover@1value.com>
To: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>

Andrew Langton <andrew.langton@BabcockBrown.com> wrote:

> Netmeeting, OE, and IE do NOT appear in add/remove programs.

Think yourself lucky you're not using W2K Pro - you'd get the likes of
Pinball (!) installed too, non-deleteable thanks to Windows File
Protection.

Also components you don't install, such as FrontPage (and Pinball even
under W2K Server!), leave empty directories lying around in Program
Files which also cannot be deleted. If you boot to another OS and remove
them, WFP happily recreates them on next boot.

If anyone has a strategy to defeat this lunacy I would be very
interested to know. 

-- 
Andrew Clover
Technical Consultant
1VALUE.com AG

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