Automatic uninstallation?

[danece]

Is there any way to uninstall SPybot S&D automatically, without the nagscreen?

Reason im asking is that we are using Kaseya (remote management) and sometimes we need to uninstall applications on 50-100 machines.

 

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

So you are using Spybot in a corporate environment without any license.

Spybot Search and Destroy is only free for the private use.
The license agreement is available on: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/paragraphs/spybotsd_license1.html

Corporate users need to purchase a license.

Some more information is available on www.safer-networking.ie

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

 

[danece]

At this point im only testing to setup the scripts (in Kaseya), to see if we will be able to do the things we want.

Maybe the Corporate Edition doesnt even have this issue?

 

[spybotsandra]

sounds different....

we need to uninstall applications on 50-100 machines.

 

[danece]

Somtimes we do, yes, and in this case its Spybot. Many of our customers have installed Spybot on their machines.

I doubt its against the licens to uninstall Spybot on lots of machines at the same time?

But at this time im only testing on 2 machines, one XP and one Vista.

/Edit
Maybe its just a missunderstanding? Im not trying to install Spybot on multiple machines, im trying to uninstall...
Sometimes we get a new customer, lets say a company with 70 users. Some of them might have Spybot installed on their machine, and in that case we want to uninstall it.

 

[PepiMK]

Well, if you have corporate customers with this popup, and it sounds that way from numbers like "50-100", these customers are in violation of our license agreement. And we don't quite feel like supporting license violations as you might imagine.

Automatically uninstalling security software, is, well, typical malware behaviour. I'm sure you understand that corporate software management methods need to be restricted to corporate versions.

Also, if you are uninstalling Spybot-S&D because you are installing Kaspersky, McAfee or Trend Micro software, you're a slave to their illegal unfair competition strategies, and we don't feel like supporting their illegal activities either - they are the reason this popup came into place in the first place.

If you have specific cases where corporate customers are using the freeware version, or those where you are forced to uninstall by a different product, please mail us details to

and we'll help on it case by case.

 

[danece]

Ok, i understand. Thanks for your time.