Subject RE: [firebird-support] self-uninstalling firebird???
Author Michael Möhle
Or used Systemrecovery?

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[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von Martijn Tonies
Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 13:25
An: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: Re: [firebird-support] self-uninstalling firebird???




> Sounds like I'm crazy, but:
> Has anyone ever experienced a firebird installation vanishing from one
> day to another from a computer?

Never.

Could it be that they restored an image?

Martijn Tonies
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> Within three weeks it's now the second time that a user's calling me,
> telling that my program isn't running any longer.
>
> This program's installed usually on a server together with FB (1.5.5,
> SS
> Win) and executed as a scheduled task via a batch script every day or
> every week or so.
>
> As usual the customers claimed they didn't uninstall firebird, but if
> you have a look at the machine there's no more service left and in the
> firebird program directory just the modified files (like security.fdb,
> aliases.conf) and some batch-scripts in the bin-directory (which I use
> for backup and adding Admin user) are left, everything else is gone.
>
> Just as a regular de-installation does.
>
> When that happened the first time I was sure the customer did that,
> but now that it happened again at another site I start wondering if
> there's some tool (antivirus or whatever) out there which might be
> running the uninstallation routine.
>
> In both cases the server is set up and usually not used by anyone else
> (login) and just left alone.
>
> Luc.
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Visit http://www.firebirdsql.org and click the Resources item on the main
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Also search the knowledgebases at http://www.ibphoenix.com

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