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Kill and Uninstall Multiple Running Anti-Virus Programs using Kaseya. Developed By: Jasmine English Advisor : Dr. S. Masoud Sadjadi School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University jengl003@fiu.edu http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi/ . Agenda.
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Kill and Uninstall Multiple Running Anti-Virus Programs using Kaseya Developed By: Jasmine English Advisor : Dr. S. Masoud SadjadiSchool of Computing and Information SciencesFlorida International University jengl003@fiu.edu http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi/
Agenda • Problem and Motivation • Solution • Behind the Scene • Customizing the Solution • Disclaimer • Progress Report
Problem and Motivation: • Computers often have more than one anti-virus application installed and running simultaneously. • Anti-virus applications, by themselves, use a significant amount of RAM and CPU resources– multiple anti-virus applications running at once can render a computer inoperable.
Solution • Using the Agent Procedures feature of Kaseya, a system administrator can monitor a set of computers and remove excessive anti-virus programs while keeping a preferred anti-virus program intact, updated and running.
Behind the Scene • A procedure traverses computer’s list of installed programs and collects information about what anti-virus programs are installed. • Deploy preferred anti-virus program if it is not already on the system. • Remove all other anti-virus programs. • Deploy monitoring procedure to report new installations of anti-virus programs. • Repeat 1 & 2 when monitor reports new anti-virus installation.
Customizing the Solution • If recognizing anti-virus program through WMI, Windows XP requires a different namespace than Windows Vista and 7. • Otherwise, no further customization needed.
Disclaimer • Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 are supported. • Mac OS X, Linux distributions and other Windows platforms are NOT supported by this solution. • Anti-Virus software not recognized by Kaseya or the WMI are NOT supported for automatic removal.
Progress Report • Drafted procedure. • Need to know how Kaseya (or WMI) recognizes programs as anti-virus programs.