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Unpackers

I hate LANDESK and McAfee. I have been given a laptop with a pretty decent config but with these 2 pre installed. I can't remove these ( technically I can ). However, this is about, unpacking and unraveling some techniques. LANDESK helps in maintaining the IT infrastructure fairly decently, but i hate it because of the fact that it is loaded with so many shit. Let us say you are assigned with the new machine and it gets into electronic record books, and there is a set of applications for your function / department that you must use on the machine, LANDESK will push these applications and get those installed silently in your machines. For pushing these, bigger applications are packed and stored in a central repository. This is replicated across geographical locations. I would not get into detail of how these gets pushed etc... however, with the help of landesk and logon scripts, it is also easily possible to find what unnecessary applications are installed, and eventually removed t...