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Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware

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Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware

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Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware - The Old New Thing

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The common pattern of trying to delete yourself.

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Remember when Sony audio CDs came with a rootkit, and then the ‘uninstaller’ they distributed had even more malware?

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