Uninstall

[CrusaderFrank]

Is uninstall a function of the software that was loaded or is it a function of the devise it was loaded on.

Say that newly installed software does way more than advertised, that it isn't just solitare but takes the opportunity to monitor and record every keystroke and browser history and report to the NSA and the NSA,'s parent company, the CCP. If you choose to "uninstall" do you just lost the ability to play solotare while the Spyware remains?

 

[strollingbones]

i hope you are going to delete all your zappo music...he would be so ashamed of you ....

i only play backgammon online

 

[Dekster]

Is uninstall a function of the software that was loaded or is it a function of the devise it was loaded on.

Say that newly installed software does way more than advertised, that it isn't just solitare but takes the opportunity to monitor and record every keystroke and browser history and report to the NSA and the NSA,'s parent company, the CCP. If you choose to "uninstall" do you just lost the ability to play solotare while the Spyware remains?

If you rely on your computers uninstall app, you need to make sure that it completely uninstalls. What usually happens is that a data file gets left behind somewhere. Firefox is notorious for leaving their data file installed after an ininstall so if you reinstall it, it will just start using the old data file for bookmarks and the like again.

 

[Godboy]

Is uninstall a function of the software that was loaded or is it a function of the devise it was loaded on.

Say that newly installed software does way more than advertised, that it isn't just solitare but takes the opportunity to monitor and record every keystroke and browser history and report to the NSA and the NSA,'s parent company, the CCP. If you choose to "uninstall" do you just lost the ability to play solotare while the Spyware remains?

If there is government level spyware in something that you installed, uninstalling the software isnt going to help.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Is uninstall a function of the software that was loaded or is it a function of the devise it was loaded on.

Say that newly installed software does way more than advertised, that it isn't just solitare but takes the opportunity to monitor and record every keystroke and browser history and report to the NSA and the NSA,'s parent company, the CCP. If you choose to "uninstall" do you just lost the ability to play solotare while the Spyware remains?

Any software that includes spyware in their code is not always going to be on the up and up to also delete that part if you delete the rest.
To answer your question - software comes with a deletion tool. The operating system would have no idea what to get rid of.

 

[Blues Man]

Is uninstall a function of the software that was loaded or is it a function of the devise it was loaded on.

Say that newly installed software does way more than advertised, that it isn't just solitare but takes the opportunity to monitor and record every keystroke and browser history and report to the NSA and the NSA,'s parent company, the CCP. If you choose to "uninstall" do you just lost the ability to play solotare while the Spyware remains?

The operating system does all that too.

So unless you can write your own code and create your own OS someone knows or can easily know everything you do on your comupter

 

[iamwhatiseem]

The operating system does all that too.

So unless you can write your own code and create your own OS someone knows or can easily know everything you do on your comupter

Ever since Windows 8, Microsoft began copying consumer data.
With Windows 10 it went much further to include documents and photos. It's right there in the tiny-tiny user agreement.
Google copies virtually everything you do within the browser. Every website, what you look at on that website, what you search for on that website and how long you look at each item.

As I said 5 years ago. Every Microsoft PC comes preloaded with spyware. All of them