find out what aplications are installed in a domain computer

[vascobrito]

Hello there,
i'm implementing security policies in the domain so the users can not install any aplications and some other stuf.
While that's not done , i need to find wich software is installed in the computers that login in the domain.
Is there any way to do this? is there any software capable of finding what i need? The real problem is that i have some worms like "spybot" in the network that the antivirus (symantec norton corporate) doesn't detect, or detect after is present. So, i want to find out if some aplication is spreading this worm.
can anyone help me?

 

[swabs]

This will only help for registered applications, not shady/malicious apps. But you can just run a "for" loop and look in the Program Files directory of each machine

1.use dsquery to get a list of computers that you want to run it on.

2. use a "for" loop to look in program files.
example.... for %i in (machine1 machine2 machine3) do (dir \\%i\c$\program files >>output.log)

3. browse through the log you created and see what apps are on the machine.

again this won't help with malicious apps.

thanks,
Ben

 

[vascobrito]

Thanks Ben
that's working for me, the only catch is that some computers are in "portuguese" , others in "spanish" and others in "English", so i have to extend the loop to look for "program files" and if doesn't find it, look for "archivos de programa" and then "programas", but that's not realy a problem.
Thanks again
Vasco