Do NOT. I repeat. Do NOT remove curl.exe from your Windows System32 folder to silence a (stupid) security scanner. It will lead to tears and sorrows.
And if you do, please don't ask *me* for help when you've broken your Windows install. I can't fix that.
Why do people remove it? Because NVD has exaggerated a curl security flaw to an inflated level, and now "security scanners" insist that the bundled curl executable has a "high severity" security flaw and scaremongers people into removing it.
And then they realize Windows update refuses to work.
Are we sure this is the best we can do?
@bagder @utzer I haven't used Windows for a long time, but I recall reading that, on modern Windows, a lot of the files in system32 are actually hardlinks to files in winsxs. If that's the case for curl.exe, just restoring the file might not be enough, since windows update might need it to still be a hardlink to the correct place.
The correct solution is most probably to use a command to reinstall the file from the original copy, be it winsxs, the install media, or even windows update.
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