GOVERLAN REMOVAL SCRIPT

Occasionally I intend to post tools, utilities, etc. that I’ve created in past jobs.  This is one such post:

While working on one contract a while back, I unfortunately ran across a company that used Goverlan to remotely administer peoples PC’s.  The unfortunate thing about it is that goverlan has a very poor removal feature.  Also, in some instances (read: many instances) goverlan would get corrupted on a users PC and get an error message every time the user logged into their machine.  It would also get the same error message when someone tried to connect to the machine.  Using the removal function in goverlan would remove the error, until a tech tried to connect to the machine again, in which case the error would re-occur.  Apparently the uninstall wasn’t a complete uninstall.  So, I created a VB Script that, when run, would completely remove goverlan from the target system.  Upon running the script, you enter the target machine name, and the script stops the service, removes all registry entries and then deletes the files.  After a reboot, Goverlan can successfully reconnect to the machine again.