Removing Vmware-Tools from Linux guest

I'm trying to import a Virtual Machine created on VMware Workstation 12 to AWS and the script their rep gave me tells me VMware Tools is installed. I know for sure I did not install it and I can verify the binaries do not exist anywhere on the system.

Taking a close look at the script given by the AWS rep it seems the check is done by doing a,

lsmod | grep vmw

and based on that output lets you know if Vmware Tools is installed or not.

My question is how can I make sure the following modules are not loaded in the first place,

lsmod | grep vmw

vmw_balloon     13415 0

vmw_vmci          67106 0

vmwgfx                1351453    1

For sure vmw_balloon module is not needed but vmwgfx is a dependency for a module named ttm (the '1' indicates a dependency).

Thanks for any responses in advance.