Fiery Driver Updater Uninstall
Driver Updater claims to be PC optimization tool but after diagnostics, we noticed that it belongs to a group of Potentially Unwanted Program. Aside from that, the program is also linked to a variety of adware that was used to deploy a copy of Driver Updater and have it installed on the computer without user’s full knowledge.Free games, media players, download manager, and utilities are just some carriers of Driver Updater. Therefore, it is vital to stay away from such freeware. Instead, download and install software that are reputable and those that are being serve on trusted websites.In the event that dubious free software was downloaded and executed, the process will not only load the main program. Driver Updater and other unwanted applications may also take place on the computer without a notice. The progression is discrete and it can even evade detection from some security software.Once Driver Updater is installed, it immediately runs a scan on the computer. It will send catchy messages and warnings to get users attention.
Windows Print Driver for Xerox EX-i C60/C70 Print Server Powered by Fiery for Xerox Color C60/C70 Printer. Supports both Windows 32-bit and 64-bit. Note: Extract this print driver into a directory on your computer.
Things like infected files, security issues, and performance concern are just some factors that will be raise by Driver Updater in order to convince user into purchasing the full version of the program.It is a common scheme by rogue software to scan and detect false issues. It will only allow user to fix the problems after purchasing the registration key and program has activated. Thus, every attempt of user to repair the computer using this program will redirect them to a merchant webpage prompting for payment to activate Driver Updater.Instead of being a victim to this rogue application, we recommend that you remove Driver Updater from the computer as soon as you can. Below are simple guide and tools to help you eliminate this threat. Procedures on this page are written in a manner that can be easily understand and execute by computer users.
Stage 1: Uninstall Driver Updater from Windows1. Go to Start menu and type appwiz.cpl under Run or Search box.2. Add/Remove Program window will open.
Select Driver Updater (driverdetails.com) from the list.3. Click on Uninstall button to remove the unwanted program. Stage 2: Scan the Computer with ESET Rogue Application Remover (ERAR)1.
Download the free scanner called ESET Rogue Application Remover.(this will open a new window)2. Choose appropriate version for your Windows System.
Save the file to a convenient location, preferably on Desktop.3. After downloading the file, Windows will prompt that download has completed. Click Run to start the program. Another option is to browse the location folder and double click on the file ERARemover.exe.4. On ESET Rogue Application Remover SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS, click Accept to continue.5. The tool will start scanning the computer.
It will prompt when it finds Driver Updater and other malicious entities. Follow the prompt to proceed with the removal.Stage 3: Double-check for leftover of Driver Updater using Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool1.
Download the free scanner called Malicious Software Removal Tool.(this will open a new window)2. The tool automatically checks the operating system and suggest appropriate download version. Click on Download button to begin.
Save the file to a convenient location, preferably on Desktop.3. After downloading the file, Windows will prompt that download has completed. Click Run to start scanning for Driver Updater. Another option is to browse the location folder and double click on the file to run.4. The tool will display Welcome screen, click Next. Please note the message “This tool is not a replacement for an antivirus product.” You must understand that this program is made specifically to find and remove malware, viruses, Trojans, and other harmful elements on the computer. It was not designed to protect the computer.5.
Next, you will see Scan Type. Please choose Full Scan to ensure that all Driver Updater entities and other harmful files left on the computer will be found and removed. For advanced computer user, you can opt for Customized Scan, if there are other drives or folders you wanted to include in this scan.6.
Full scan may take a while, please wait for Malicious Software Removal Tool to complete the tasks. However, you may cancel the scan anytime by clicking on the Cancel button.7. After scanning, the tool will reveal all identified threats. There may be other threats that our first scan fails to detect. Please remove/delete all detected items.8.
When removal procedure is complete, you may now close Malicious Software Removal Tool. We hope that Driver Updater have been completely deleted from the computer. Please restart Windows to proceed with the normal operation. Stage 4: Scan the computer with Anti-malware Program1.
Download the free anti-malware scanner called MalwareBytes Anti-Malware.(this will open a new window)2. After downloading, install the program. It may run automatically or you have to double-click on the downloaded file MB3-Setup.exe.3. Proceed with the installation using only the default setup. If you need the complete setup procedure, it is available on the download page.4.
At the last stage of installation process, click Finish to run the program.5. On Malwarebytes Anti-Malware console, select Scan from the menu to see available Scan Method.6. Next, click on Threat Scan.
This is the most comprehensive scan method that will surely find any hidden items linked to Driver Updater.7. Click Start Scan button to begin checking the computer.8.
When scanning is done, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will display the list of identified threats. Remove all identified threats and restart the computer to finalized the scan process.
I'm reaching out to the community here because EFI has been completely unhelpful here. Although we are dealing with Canon printers, the issue isn't Canon in this case. Our Canon rep has been more than helpful in trying to get answers from EFI, but ultimately EFI isn't offering much up in terms of a solution which to me is absolutely insane considering their customers are in the enterprise.The new Fiery drivers for OS X 10.11 El Capitan state that older Fiery drivers need to be uninstalled before installing the new drivers otherwise there will be some problems which are documented in their release notes.
The uninstaller is of course a part of the driver download, but it's all GUI. Release notes:Has anyone figured out a way to use their uninstaller to uninstall Fiery drivers through the command line silently? Obviously manually uninstalling software does not scale. I've thought of doing a before and after snapshot to see what is installed by drivers, but that certainly won't include any logic built into their uninstaller.I've also made a thread about it here:P.S. I just need to add that I really really hate EFI. What a horrible company to deal with. Absolutely atrocious support.
Can you use composer to snapshot an uninstall then go back into the 'Snapshots' folder and use the items listed in 'Deleted Files' to create an uninstall script? You can even right click on the Deleted Files list and it will offer to make a post flight script for you.You could either load that script in an empty package and run it as an uninstaller or load it as a preflight script in the new install package you make.Just an idea. I've had to do it for bluecoat in the past when they were using.app installers and uninstallers. I'm aware that's always an option, but its.dirty. I would lose the logic built into the uninstaller which knows how to detect its own drivers whether old or current along with print queues using those drivers.
It's bad enough their installer has to be modified to be deployed properly, but if I follow this then I'm essentially attempting to recreate their uninstaller which may or may not cover every scenario of what drivers/versions may be installed on the client.This isn't meant at you of course, but.is it too much to ask to have command line options available when your customers are in the enterprise? Its nuts that we pay for this POS.
And I just checked on my thread on the EFI forums and they posted helpful information!!!Here's the link:and the text for historical archiving: Fiery Software Uninstaller CommandlineDuring silent uninstallation, FSU will not ask for any confirmation from user like closingrunning applications, asking for retaining preferences etc.In case if any application is running, it will close it and proceed for uninstallation withoutany confirmation from the user.Usage:sudo FSU -s CurrentUserName Flag options.CurrentUserName can be provided as ”$USER” or `whoami`. It is used to get the location ofthe user specific Library/Preferences folder.FSU = /Fiery Software Uninstaller.app/Contents/MacOS/Fiery Software Uninstaller.Flags-rmAll - Remove all Fiery Applications, printers and drivers.-rmApps - Remove all Fiery Applications.-rmPrints - Remove all Printers.-rmDrivs - Remove all Drivers.-a “App1, App2” - Remove specified applications. Application names must beseparated by comma and complete list should be enclosed within “ “.-arp 'App1, App2' - Remove specified applications but retain their preference files.Ex: For 'Fiery Command WorkStation'-p “Printer1, Printer2”- Remove specified printers. Printer names must be separatedby comma and complete list should be enclosed within “ “.-d “Driver1, Driver2” - Remove specified drivers.
I'll throw out that the 'need to uninstall the previous driver' has been a statement in EFI's previous Fiery installer Read Me's, so that's nothing new to 10.11.That said, anyone who is distributing Fiery drivers should probably be using smart groups to verify the Fiery Features (FF) Printer Dialog Extension (PDE) version if they're upgrading across major OS X versions (e.g. 10.9 - 10.10) in place.
This is since EFI can't be bothered to make a single FF PDE that works across all versions of OS X. For example, the 'FD47' revision (version taken from the name of the dmg downloaded from EFI's site) Fiery driver for the Ricoh C3503 with E-22C 1.0 Fiery supports 10.6-10.10. Hey, thanks for the extra notes.
I had only deployed the drivers previously on newly built machines with Yosemite so it wasn't really an issue at that point to uninstall since there was nothing to uninstall. I also never saw the notes regarding uninstalling the drivers in previous release notes. I noticed the same thing as you did regarding the extension when dealing with these drivers on Yosemite (we were testing some issues with SMB vs LPD; short of it is that SMB caused a 30 second delay in the print dialog in Yosemite which has improved to 5 second delay with the El Capitan drivers).
And any other EFI customers.I had meeting with their technical engineers. They were quite receptive and I've provided them some feedback to make things a bit more enterprise friendly. I've also pointed them to your comment regarding the Fiery Features Print Dialog Extension.To recap what I shared with them: Packaging Commandments:One immediate improvement that can have an immediate impact for enterprise customers:-Make documentation/whitepapers available on how to deploy and uninstall drivers in an enterprise environment so that admins do not have to come up with their own solutions and dig deep into the EFI driver installer package and tear it apart.
Specifically the uninstall documentation was greatly appreciated.Topics discussed for improvements for deploying drivers in an enterprise environment:-Enterprise friendly way to deploy install drivers without the Install Wizard appearing using the command line-Add the uninstall of old EFI drivers when installing new EFI drivers. Since admins are being asked to uninstall the drivers before installing new drivers, may as well force it.
Although, in doing this take into account that some people may want to remove the drivers, but not necessarily the print queues. Not sure if that's possible or not, but I'll leave that task up to you to determine the best way to handle that.-Make the installation of the Fiery Driver Updater optional as most enterprise environments have to test drivers before deploying.-Look into using getopts as opposed to multiple nested if statements. Here is one of many articles you can find online about it. Just a minor update: I took a look at the Fiery Features (FF) Printer Dialog Extension (PDE) version.
But in our case there are only two versions and they both have the same version. So even that isn't consistent across all Fiery drivers.
May not effect you, but figured I'd mention it in case someone else tries to follow that technique. FWIW Our Fiery is an F200 for the Canon C700.So in speaking to the developers, the reason they added that GUI was because admins were asking for it.
As you may imagine, not everyone has the same skill set and not every environment is the same. So in situations where the end user has to install on their own, that GUI comes in handy. Or in places where techs are manually installing things. This is what it was like for me in Higher Ed so I can empathize with the request. Unfortunately, it complicate things for admins who like to deploy things silently and in the background. Fortunately, it's possible to break apart their installer.
Hopefully the feedback I gave them will allow them to improve upon this process so they can appease the various environments they support. We've been silently installing the latest version that works with our model Fierys at my site, 'ic415v20PSmacOSX10v47R.' We loaded the 'Fiery Printer Driver.pkg' straight out of their DMG into JSS. We have been deploying it without any modifications as part of an imaging configuration, or if we need to install it (and map the printer) to someone's existing computer silently via Casper Remote.Placing the Uninstaller app in the target drive is trivial. I will experiment with the command line trigger for the uninstaller you posted to see if it works with our version of the software. It'll come in handy when our lease is up (in a couple of years), and we need to upgrade to a new version. Thanks for that.
It's great that you've got a dialogue going with the developers.I can understand the advantages you described. I just think it'd be best to have both options, or at least some instructions/documentation on how to silently deploy, that's officially supported rather than gleaned from a forum like this one and having to essentially hack the installer, as that's a common requirement in enterprise environments.I must admit I hadn't seen your post above, and I see you've already fed that request back to them, which is great.
I have written an AutoPkg recipe for revision 'FD50' Fiery drivers. While researching the drivers, I encountered a few things:. Revision FD50 drivers now have an postinstall (installation) script that recognizes a command line installation. Revision FD50 drivers seem to have consistent postinstall scripts across all printer/RIP models. Revision FD50 drivers will abort installation of the Fiery Driver Updater if it doesn't existMy goal is to remove the Fiery Driver Updater and then repack the package so a command line installation is silent and doesn't include the driver updater. I wrote the recipes. The workflow is as follows:.
Navigate to EFI's and find your driver. You should pick a driver that specifically supports OS X 10.11, since this appears to be one of calling cards of a revision FD50 driver. Start the driver download and then obtain the direct URL of the downloaded file.
Uninstall Fiery Driver Updater On Windows
In Safari you can right-click on the file in the download window to obtain the URL. The URL will roughly resemble this (this one is for a Ricoh Pro 901 with E41 v1.0 Fiery):Note the name of the disk image (in this case 'RicohE41v10REFIGSDFD50v1') and confirm that it is indeed named for a 'FD50' revision driver.
Fiery Driver Updater Uninstaller
Add my AutoPkg repo and then create a uniquely-named override for the download recipe, using the name of your disk imageautopkg repo-add foigus-recipesautopkg make-override GenericFieryFD50.pkg -n RicohE41v10SCFD50v1.pkg. Edit the override, setting DOWNLOADURL to the URL discovered when downloading your driver and the NAME and PACKAGEID as appropriate. I used a NAME of the disk image name plus 'NoUpdate', and a PACKAGEID of com.efi.pkg but replacing the underscores with hyphens since the PkgCreator processor doesn't like underscores.