ARCHIVED: The Secunia CSI Agent service on Windows computers

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Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) and its Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) Agent are programs to help you identify the software installed on your computer and keep it up to date.

The Indiana University versions of PSI and CSI may have been installed on your Windows computer in one of a couple ways:

  • Via IUware (if you installed the Secunia PSI from IUware)
  • By your department's IT Pro

If you do not wish to receive assistance from the University Information Policy Office (UIPO) with uninstalling peer-to-peer programs, nor to receive notifications from the UIPO about software risks, you must remove the CSI Agent service.

Note:
Before attempting to remove the CSI Agent from a departmental computer, consult your department's IT Pro.

To remove the CSI Agent service from a personally owned computer:

  1. Open the Task Manager.

    For help, see Microsoft Support.

    Click the Services tab.

  2. At the bottom of the window, select the Services... button.
  3. In the "Services" window, right-click Secunia CSI Agent and select Properties. Note the "Path to executable" value.
  4. Open an elevated command prompt. To do this, from the Start menu, select All Programs and then Accessories. Right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
  5. At the command prompt, type the full path to the executable in quotation marks, followed by -r. For example:
     "C:\Program Files\Secunia\CSI\csia.exe" -r 
  6. Type the full path to the executable in quotation marks again, followed by -Z. This deletes the registry settings for the CSI Agent. For example:
     "C:\Program Files\Secunia\CSI\csia.exe" -Z
  7. To delete the CSI agent, type del followed by the path in quotation marks. For example:
     del "C:\Program Files\Secunia\CSI\csia.exe"

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Last modified on 2019-03-13 13:18:26.