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The debacle with zoom installing a secret webserver that stays on your computer after uninstalling so it can reinstall zoom and also had rce vulns, happened a year ago. That was before covid and zoom's current level of popularity. So i'm going to go with no.



Source?



I see you were downvoted. I gave you an upvote because nobody should ever be penalized for asking people to back their claims up with a source.


How can we be sure there isn't a similar, more subtle version non-removable installation now?

(I briefly had Zoom installed a few months ago, then un-installed it, but I don't know how to verify).


If you can make a virtual machine equivalent to your computer: make one, get a list of all the files (and dump the registry on windows), then install and uninstall zoom and repeat. Then just inspect whatever the diff is.




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