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{ 06 August 2008 }

Big Bug in Flickr Screensaver

Hi

I’ve just been informed of a fairly large bug in the uninstaller for the latest Flickr Screensaver.

Basically if you uninstall it it will try and delete your Windows\System32 directory.

Obviously that is VERY BAD. I apologise. I’ve deleted the installer from the web site, but anyone who has the latest version of the screensaver should not uninstall it.

Sam

Posted by Sam on Wednesday, August 6, 2008, at 2:16 pm, and filed under Code, Flickr. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed.
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{ 5 } Comments

  1. Tom | January 7, 2009 at 5:39 pm | Permalink

    Nice.

  2. Sam | January 7, 2009 at 5:44 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, thanks…

  3. Tom | January 7, 2009 at 6:03 pm | Permalink

    I guess it depends on whether you stipulated that the uninstaller uninstalled only the screensaver. Otherwise, all sounds fair enough to me. Recurse up a couple of directories in the next version. Comprehensive.

  4. Sam | January 7, 2009 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

    I had it set to delete the installation directory - unfortunately I then changed the installation directory to be the system32 directory.

  5. Silviu | October 6, 2009 at 12:51 pm | Permalink

    What the f.. Sam ?!

    Test the f.. thing before you make a release.

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