WIndows Console uninstallation article

[Andrew Schofield]

All,

I've just written the first edition of this article, but I haven't
linked it from the how to section yet.
I've commented out a section at the bottom for additional sections, "non
standard installs" and "illegitimate installs" as I'm not sure how much
detail should be added to these sections.

What do you guys think?

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Andrew Schofield

[ivos...@gmail.com]

The FAH trojan issue has come up couple of times and will likely come
up in the future as well. I think this information should get posted
about.

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[ivos...@gmail.com]

Is there a need for FAH client uninstallation for MAC and Linux as well?

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 5/22/06, ivos...@gmail.com <ivos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a need for FAH client uninstallation for MAC and Linux as well?

It won't hurt to have the info for less experienced users.

But the process is so simple on Linux, just kill the processes and
remove the directory.

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Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors.

[Andrew Schofield]

The actual removal is pretty basic on all OSes, you can in theory just delete the directories. It's removing the other rubbish that takes time. If we add instructions for linux, surely you would need a section telling people how to get rid of  any init.d entries etc? Does finstall have an uninstallation option? (I should have checked when I installed using finstall ;) )
I'm not particularly comfortable with writing a section to do this since my linux knowledge is not /that/ extensive (although it is growing, since I started using it as my main OS).

I've added the page to the howto section already since I think it can be useful in it's current state.

The trojan install detail can probably be added to this page, I've already created a commented out section at the bottom for this, as well as for non-standard installations like using srvany etc. A link to how to uninstall FAW may be useful here too.

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[Bas Couwenberg]

On 5/22/06, Andrew Schofield <the.uncl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not particularly comfortable with writing a section to do this since my
> linux knowledge is not /that/ extensive (although it is growing, since I
> started using it as my main OS).

Don't worry about the Linux knowledge We got that covered :-)

> I've added the page to the howto section already since I think it can be
> useful in it's current state.

I like it a lot. This is what I like most about the wiki, it also
being a public documentation repository.

On 5/22/06, ivos...@gmail.com <ivos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> The FAH trojan issue has come up couple of times and will likely come
> up in the future as well. I think this information should get posted
> about.

I haven't seen any of those posts myself, could you throw in a couple
of words/links?

[ivos...@gmail.com]

Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> On 5/22/06, ivos...@gmail.com <ivos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The FAH trojan issue has come up couple of times and will likely come
> > up in the future as well. I think this information should get posted
> > about.
>
> I haven't seen any of those posts myself, could you throw in a couple
> of words/links?

Some hints how the Pande Group does feel about it can be found at
http://folding.stanford.edu/faq-uninstall.html
Some tools for currently known ones at
http://www.vendomar.ee/%7Eivo/ufold/
A lot of talk about it at FCF (just search for trojan):
http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=13576
http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=13447
http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=11034
...
and at FAH WIKI:
http://fahwiki.net/index.php/FAH_%26_Trojans

[Uncle_Fungus]

Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> On 5/22/06, Andrew Schofield <the.uncl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not particularly comfortable with writing a section to do this since my
> > linux knowledge is not /that/ extensive (although it is growing, since I
> > started using it as my main OS).
>
> Don't worry about the Linux knowledge We got that covered :-)

Good good, I'll try and contribute what I know ;)

>
> > I've added the page to the howto section already since I think it can be
> > useful in it's current state.
>
> I like it a lot. This is what I like most about the wiki, it also
> being a public documentation repository.
>

If only we could get a few more people doing what were doing. (sigh)