automatic internet illegal application detection

[bobo12]

many universities, are deploying automatic artificial agents that can spot illegal software on users on their networks. any idea how this is done?

i mean how would you distinguish from the same serial # that may be used by 1000 ppl around the world. who's the real purchaser assuming they haven't registered.

have there been any efforts to bypass this detection. i heard something like %85 of all russian copies of microsoft win os systems are pirated.

it just doesn't make sense to me how they can tell this. any thoughts?

 

[Deleted]

If you have a firewall on your machine and never do software updates (w/ pirated software). Then there is no way to accomplish this via a network connection. In order for the agent to determine if the software is cracked. It needs access to the registry.

http://unixjunky.com

 

[bobo12]

so when is

http://unixjunky.com

going to be ready.
or is it suppossed to just say...
"So I lag.. Big deal!"

 

[MasterRacker]

Are you sure they're looking for illegal software or are they scanning for unapproved software.

There are plenty of asset management packages that can scan for all software on a network and build a database. Comparing that to a list of approved packages can easily find things that aren't supposed to be there.

That being said, as UnixJunky stated, no agent can do anything with machines that aren't networked.


Jeff
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