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?
<shrug> This is only one reason why I got rid of Microsoft products 23 years. I've been using GNU/Linux ever since.
I started on winduhs (As I call it) at the University of Sheffield in the 1990's. First degree in chemistry. We had to use 16 bit networking. With Novell NetWare (get that brick ready). Winduhs for workgroups 3.11. Windsock DLL. I thought that was rotten until winduhs 98 and ME came along. At which point someone in the Department of Chemistry pointed out that he had to build his own i686 machine with dual processors to do anything with Linux 🥱
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