This is an excellent use of agentic AI, btw. Fire Claude up and say, "Remove LG malware and mcafee from this computer. Make regex changes so it can't be installed again."
My current windows 10 install is cleaner than any other windows machine I've ever owned due to using Claude to deep dive and rip stuff out.
> excellent use of agentic AI
you run claude code unsanboxed on your machine and give it privileged access?
At least it might do a better job than Gemini when I told it to fix the drivers in Linux
On my windows machine I do. Not on my important machines.
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Giving the data to Anthropic instead of giving it to LG and McAffee, fascinating
"Prevent this software having unfettered access to your machine by giving some other software unfettered access to your machine"
That's a hot-take, but yeah. Something like that.
Probably more like, "Prevent adversarially installed software from having unfettered access to your machine by giving software you specifically requested unfettered access to your machine."
If it makes you feel safer, you can just tell it to give you the commands run them yourself. The point is, I'm not a Windows sysadmin so idk how to do stuff like this--claude does.
Plenty of people probably do this, and it's not a bad idea.