Anyone know what "EZ_1-2-3 ActiveX Control" is? Or determining components of an installed app?

[XeonTux]

I've been letting a friend use a Windows 98 system of mine. Now I thought that I had filtered internet access on that PC to keep him from all the pron sites...well it wasn't and now I have a sh!tload of spam added to my system.

I was removing a few programs (Celebs Nude, etc.) from Add/Remove Proggies, and came across EZ_1-2-3 ActiveX Control. I am not sure what this is and I can't find any info on it. I don't think I remember it being there before. (The only thing I could think of is possibly a part of Adaptec EZ CD Creator? Or is it more like EZ_1-2-3_I_0wn_Your_PC? )

This brings me to another question I've had for a while: How can you determine the components of an installed package in Windows? I imagine it wouldn't be as nice as RPM's in linux, but there's gotta be a way right?


edit: fixed leaky tag

 

[ceraph]

That's a component library that is installed, usually, in your system directory and registered in your registry.

The only way I know of to get a list of registered components and libraries on your system is with Visual Studio. You can use regsvr32 from the command line to register and unregister components and libraries, but I don't know what can give you a list of installed ones.

Programs on windows, unfortunately, are not installed as convieniently as, say, packages on Solaris. What most programs do through installshield is to list their dependancies on components and libraries. What installshield does is that it copies these files from the install directory and registers them via regsvr32.

What your EZ_123 thing probably is is an external component or library package that one of your applications needs/needed to run. Rather than include the dll's in their install folder and have them registered via installshield, they may have chosen to install a 3rd party application.