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Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines
From: Mike Wiseman <mike.wiseman () UTORONTO CA>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:01:48 -0400
I'd be interested to hear the details of your patch version checking system. Our group is in the process of combining NetReg (www.netreg.org) and Nessus for this purpose. In regards to your quest to obtain more information from an unmanaged end station, I too am looking for this next step and have begun to look at adapting open-source software installer packages. The intention is for the end user to download/run this application which would gather pertinent data and send it to the admin host. Mike Wiseman Manager - Computer Security Administration Computing and Networking Services University of Toronto
Now that we have found a way to check students' machines for missing patches before they are allowed on the network, we are looking to expand to checking for the presence of updated anti-virus software. This requires access to the students' machines, so we are looking at using a web page with a .NET component to perform the check. A few questions: 1) Is anyone else doing something like this currently? 2) How have you implemented this (web page w/ ActiveX/.Net, downloadable program...)? 3) What do you look for to determine if AV software is present (registry entries, services, running processes...)? 4) How successful has it been? 5) Pitfalls?
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- Checking for AV software on students' machines Nathan Hall (Jun 09)
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- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Mike Wiseman (Jun 09)
- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Jeff Giacobbe (Jun 09)
- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Rivers, Christopher R (Jun 09)
- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Craig Blaha (Jun 09)
- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Brian Eckman (Jun 09)
- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Ariel Silverstone (Jun 09)
- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Nathan Hall (Jun 09)
- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Jeff Bollinger (Jun 09)
- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Helms, Sandra (Jun 09)
- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Bill Frazier (Jun 09)
- Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines Gibbs, Aaron M. (Jun 09)
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