Re: Spyware assessment techniques

[Eric Schultze <ews () tellurian com>]

(Note: I work for Shavlik - blatant vendor/product pitch below)

Derek,
We have a solution that does network spyware scanning - no agents required 
on individual hosts - all the scanning is performed remotely by the console 
and nothing is installed or instantiated on the target hosts (scanning 
assumes you have admin login creds and access to the file and printer 
sharing service on those machines).

The scan engine detects different types of items: spyware, malware, adware, 
non-business ware, and configuration (to protect against malware 
infestation).  It further labels items based on confidentiality, integrity, 
availability, non-business, and productivity (you can filter to scan for 
all types and labels, or only selected items).  Reporting can be done at 
the console with 15+ different kinds of reports and exports, and the entire 
scan process can be done via commandline.  Remediation is also available, 
though it can be licensed to do scan only (Audit version).  We also have 
licensing available for consulting engagements, so you can cut keys to do 
the Audit version against a given number of hosts for a specified period of 
time.

You can view a sample of the reports here: 
http://reportserver.shavlik.com/  (choose a report type towards the bottom 
for spyware reports)

more info on the product here: http://www.shavlik.com/netchk-protect.html

(you can license the audit version with or without the patch assessment 
portion)


At 10:07 PM 2/9/2006, Derek Nash wrote:
> I am now frequently getting requests for spyware/grayware/adware
> assessments as subcomponent of a larger security assessment. My
> efforts up to this point have been a manual process of loading free
> antispyware tools, scanning the host,  individually recording the
> results, classifying the types of spyware encountered and reporting
> the results.
>
> Recently I have begun to consider including data from a web usage
> analysis tool that has the ability to identify spyware downloads and
> phone home attempts to augment these manual efforts. I am wondering
> what others are doing in regards to spyware assessments and if anyone
> is aware a spyware "network scanner" that would allow me to look at a
> larger sampling of hosts on a network during these assessments.
>
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