Re: Checking for AV software on students' machines

[Mike Wiseman <mike.wiseman () UTORONTO CA>]

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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