The university netreg lists has a frequently asked question if its
possible to perform a virus scan of new computers as part of the network
registration process. So far, people have only been able to do a network
scan (e.g. open ports), or some version of proxy check or nessus.
But none of those actually tell you if there is a worm or trojan. I was
wondering if anyone (or vendor) has come up with a web application which
ISP's could use to check if new customers are already infected with a
network worm or trojan (not a full disk scan) as part of the registration
process.
It seems like several of the anti-virus vendors have the parts and pieces,
but none of them seem to offer such a product for ISPs. I would think
an ActiveX application could check for the top 20 or so network trojans or
worms (less than 1 minute to do the checks), and report the results back
to the ISP (or university) network registration web site.
Between universities (with new students) and ISPs (with new customers)
there would seem to be a new market for such a product. But so far
I haven't found an AV vendor that has put it together.
Sean Donelan wrote:
The university netreg lists has a frequently asked question if its
possible to perform a virus scan of new computers as part of the network
registration process. So far, people have only been able to do a network
scan (e.g. open ports), or some version of proxy check or nessus.
The University of Florida has implemented something like this. Apparently, they have a client-side app that detects malware...and P2P apps. Interesting concept but it's understandably not being received well.
apl
: or some version of proxy check or nessus.
I am still not having any luck with Nessus and the
MS virus plug in. I have been scanning my users
(20K) and not finding any viruses. No way !
This is after I removed ACL's through out the network.
Gotta read some more on this, this weekend.
I would love to have this functionality, the user Radius
info is in SQL so it would be easy to script a check to run
whenever and send an e-mail to the support desk (and user)
to contact them.
James Edwards
Routing and Security Administrator
jamesh@cybermesa.com
At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa
505-988-9200 or Toll Free: 888-988-2700
SIP:1(747)669-1965
That's just a normal network traffic flow monitor, it doesn't actually
check the user's computer.
The issue is how to check the computer is "fixed" after the user claims
its fixed. Or do you just keep repeating the cycle of user claims the
computer is fixed, enable the port, computer attacks other stuff, disable
the port, user claims its fixed, repeat.
for most virus type stuff i find an acl on thier nearest interface to
both deny and log thier traffic patterns is helpfull. im not sure how
feasable that would be on a larger network. i've only got about 10k
users so the above is not yet unreasonable.