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Way to scan for software installed without admin rights?

Ahutton

March 05, 2012 17:06

Some software now, like Dropbox or Chrome or Firefox can bypass administrator rights and install itself into the users' folder. Typically on our systems that use the UAC, if the user cancels or dismisses the UCA prompt the app gets installed anyway. Is there any way for PDQ Inventory to scan for these sorts of rogue programs? We're a Spiceworks user too and apparently it does not scan for them either, and I've noticed they don't show up in the control panel's "Programs and Features".

Thanks in advance,

--Aaron

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Shane Corellian
March 05, 2012 17:38

Right now PDQ Inventory will show an application that is installed in a user context if that particular user was logged on during the scan. Basically, if user, Pamela, has Chrome installed in a User context and a PDQ Inventory scan takes place Chrome will show up as an installed application. Chrome will not show as being installed when a scan takes place and Pamela is not logged on.

This is a known limitation with the current version. We are working on a solution to show all software installed in all user profiles.

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Ahutton
March 05, 2012 19:01

Great, thank you and good to know it's in the works.

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