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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?
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Hi @Baum, Eric ,
By default, if your application doesn't contain the script to install the .net core 2.1, it will not auto install it. Normally, these old version is installed when the visual studio install some specific version of .net core. I suggest you could also check your vs to make sure you don't install the old version SDK.
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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You could have a windows group policy that is installing the software.