[toothbrush]

> In this case Windows Defender and Lenovo's own tool remove the app + certificate. I think that's certainly "enough" as we're not dealing with malware which has trashed the system in other ways.

You don't know that for sure. Hence, reinstall. Also, why not use a Libre operating system? I've never had my GNU activation fail.

[smkelly]

I guess you never mistyped a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation number before then.

[derekp7]

You mean that monstrosity from RHEL 5? I'm so glad they got rid of that in RHEL 6.

[selectodude]

Because that's completely unreasonable and you know that.