On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 22:51 -0500, MikeF wrote: > After using Linux for some time, I realized that this might be another good use for wine. > > I've been seeing the commercials for PC SpeedScan by Ascentive and have > even been asked about it by non-techie friends. Since my Ubuntu system > isn't real mission critical, I decided to throw caution to the winds > and installed the 'product'. > > One behavior of malware is that it purposely does not uninstall cleanly > or at all. Sure enough, the wine uninstaller could not remove any of > the Ascentive crap. Just for grins, I installed CCleaner and Revo > Uninstaller - they could remove evidence from the wine Uninstall > dialog but the app menus still remain. Looks like apt-get autoremove > wine, install wine, here we come. Locate and delete ( or rename ) your wine profile folder ( ie ~/.wine ). Everything that you install *should* be confined to this, unless you specifically set up links between wine and the rest of your filesystem. Note that when I delete my .wine folder and run wineconf, it sets up a 'Z:' drive which points to my root ( / ) folder, so in theory something could write to Z:/home/dkasak/ and put stuff elsewhere, but it's pretty unlikely. > Has anyone else tried this? > Any hints for removing orphan menus? Use gnome's menu editor ( sorry, the name escapes me, and I'm running 'gnome-light' at the moment ). Or alternatively use a gconf2 editor. Dan
