Re: beneware?

[Gary Warner <gar () askgar com>]

We don't call it spyware.  We call it "inventory software".  We use 
TSCensus at work (from Tally Systems, recently acquired, to my great 
dismay, by Novell, the worst marketing company on the planet.)

TSCensus will not only tell us every application that is installed, it 
also will tell us how many seconds each of them ran each day, and how 
many seconds they were "active" as opposed to "launched but not doing 
anything".  We use the software to sweetly suggest to people who are 
trying to buy expensive packages for their employees that the employees 
who already own the software aren't actually using it, and maybe they 
would like to transfer it.  We also use it to identify execution of 
several hundred common "bad things", which cause an alarm to go off on a 
console, and a personal visit from one of my staff to inquire as to the 
business need of "StripperSoft" or some such screensaver application 
that applies spyware.

Of course, most of the guys on my security team have written scripts to 
go into the locally stored "usage" log and eradicate the things they 
don't want observed.  I suppose I should fire them, but I enjoy their 
creativity too much.

_-_
gar

Douglas F. Calvert wrote:

> Hello,
> So dave has his nematodes, where is the beneware (like
> malware/spyware but gooder:)? Spyware would be a great way for IT
> departments to survey desktop application usage. Has anyone ever seen
> anything like this for data collection?
> --
> --dfc
> douglasfcalvert () gmail com
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