.NET Core 2.1 Keeps Coming Back After Uninstall

Baum, Eric 1 Reputation point
2022-03-21T20:13:34.773+00:00

We have a development VM with some apps installed such as Visual Studio 2019 and SQL Server Management Studio 18.6. Our weekly security scans are showing that .NET Core 2.1.30 is installed, which is at end of life and should be removed. I manually uninstall the application from the apps and features control panel, but it mysteriously appears again about a month later. When I was looking at the event viewer while trying to track down who could be installing it, I notice that it is installed by the SYSTEM user. Is there any dependent app that could be reinstalling this automatically after I manually remove it?

Developer technologies | .NET | Entity Framework Core
Developer technologies | ASP.NET | ASP.NET Core
Developer technologies | .NET | .NET Runtime
Windows for business | Windows Server | User experience | Other
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  1. Limitless Technology 39,926 Reputation points
    2022-03-25T16:12:52.013+00:00

    Hi BaumEric-2849,

    No application should be able to reinstall this independently. Are you sure it's being fully removed? Have you rebooted after the reinstallation, as it may be reappearing after a reboot.

    I suggest installing the latest version:

    https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet

    I do hope this answers your question.

    Thanks.


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  2. Bruce (SqlWork.com) 78,006 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-03-25T17:51:56.517+00:00

    You could have a windows group policy that is installing the software.

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