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Re: Detecting Installed Softwares on PCby steelrose (Scribe) |
| on Oct 04, 2005 at 12:18 UTC ( #497225=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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A commerical off-the-shelf product I used at a previous job searched the entire hard drive for all .exe files, and then compared their names, sizes, (and to a lesser degree - paths), to a database of known products. Of course, you could get around that by renaming the file in most cases. But it was highly effective for that company.
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