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Old January 22nd, 2008, 08:14 AM
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why does it need to run before logon? if you use group policy and assign this as a logon script, firefox will be uninstalled in a matter of seconds. i doubt anyone would have time to stop it from uninstalling. after all, this is a silent uninstall so the user isn't going to see anything but the command window, and that window should only stay open for a second.
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Yeah, this belongs in the logon script.

It's really unfortunately your admin has decided he needs to do this. It sets up an 'us vs them' attitude between the IT staff and the students. And please don't tell me the machines still have IE6 on them?
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you guys do know that people can change the installation path - so that path to the uninstaller is not going to be always the same. Just an FYI.
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i know. that's why i mentioned the software from above so he could go into each computer and physically remove the program in case it was installed in a different directory.
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Going along with what Weevil has suggested, the proper approach for this would be to use WMI to poll the actuall uninstall information from the registry and launch the uninstaller as it was intended. Performing a silent uninstall in this context would result in no windows at all being shown.


By the way, since this is a school I'm going to assume there is some flavor of Microsoft Office installed. Make sure to permanently disable the use of macros in all Office apps or this is a complete and utter exercise in futility.
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You might also try creating a file named monitor.vbs with the following contents.
vb Code:
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  1. strProcess = "firefox.exe"
  2. strComputer = "."
  3. Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
  4. Set objEventSrc = objWMIService.ExecNotificationQuery( _
  5.    "SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent " & _
  6.        "WITHIN 1 WHERE TargetInstance ISA 'Win32_Process'" _
  7.          & "And TargetInstance.Name = '" & strProcess & "'")
  8.    
  9. Do While True
  10.    Set objEvent = objEventSrc.NextEvent()
  11.    objEvent.TargetInstance.Terminate()
  12. Loop
Then launch it from your logon script using the Run method. Be sure to set the optional boolean value to false so that it is run asynchronously and your logon script will continue to execute.

Monitor.vbs will simply run resident in the background and close any instance of firefox.exe that appears. WMI's ExecNotificationQuery uses an extremely small footprint and will not reduce your system resources.
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