diff --git a/src/ducktools/pythonfinder/shared.py b/src/ducktools/pythonfinder/shared.py
index e6cf776..c7cad42 100644
--- a/src/ducktools/pythonfinder/shared.py
+++ b/src/ducktools/pythonfinder/shared.py
@@ -51,13 +51,6 @@
 
 FULL_PY_VER_RE = r"(?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.?(?P<micro>\d*)-?(?P<releaselevel>a|b|c|rc)?(?P<serial>\d*)?"
 
-UV_PYTHON_RE = (
-    r"(?P<implementation>[a-zA-Z]+)"
-    r"-(?P<version>\d+\.\d+\.\d*[a-zA-Z]*\d*)\+?(?P<extra>.*?)?"
-    r"-(?P<platform>\w*)"
-    r"-(?P<arch>\w*)"
-    r"-.*"
-)
 
 # Cache for runtime details
 # Code to work out where to store data
@@ -574,6 +567,7 @@ def get_uv_pythons(finder=None) -> Iterator[PythonInstall]:
                 for f in fld:
                     if (
                         f.is_dir()
+                        and not f.is_symlink()
                         and (install := _implementation_from_uv_dir(f, finder=finder))
                     ):
                         yield install
diff --git a/tests/test_uv_finder.py b/tests/test_uv_finder.py
index 263df48..0708ed1 100644
--- a/tests/test_uv_finder.py
+++ b/tests/test_uv_finder.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 import pytest
 
 from ducktools.pythonfinder.shared import (
-    UV_PYTHON_RE,
     get_uv_python_path,
     get_uv_pythons,
 )
@@ -153,13 +152,3 @@ def test_finds_installed_pypy(self, uv_pythondir, temp_finder):
         assert pythons[0].implementation == "pypy"
         assert pythons[0].implementation_version >= (7, 3, 17)
         assert pythons[0].managed_by == "Astral"
-
-
-def test_regex_matches():
-    example_312 = "cpython-3.12.7-windows-x86_64-none"
-    match = re.match(UV_PYTHON_RE, example_312)
-    assert match.groups() == ("cpython", "3.12.7", "", "windows", "x86_64")
-
-    example_313t = "cpython-3.13.0+freethreaded-windows-x86_64-none"
-    match = re.match(UV_PYTHON_RE, example_313t)
-    assert match.groups() == ("cpython", "3.13.0", "freethreaded", "windows", "x86_64")