You know Firmin,

Most of the risk has been shifted to the source people are downloading from.  So many people rather Google a product, and grab from the first page of results. So that is a majority of the issue is repackaged products with additional *ware in it.  This is very hard to find cause most actions that are being executed are not going to set off a lot of the antivirus products with medium to low heuristics. 

You know I am curious as to a good antivirus that can run on Linux without having to be installed whenever there is a new kernel update.  So good luck to you and your quest old friend.

Timoteo "Timo" Vasquez; MCTS, MCP

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From: Charlot, Firmin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:15 PM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Re-evaluating tools for patching workstations/servers and 3rd party apps

As you know the vectors of attacks have been shifting for some time now towards 3^rd party apps like Adobe, Flash and others.

Do you know of any tools that can centrally scan for vulnerabilities and centrally remediate 3^rd party apps, Windows & Linux Operating Systems? 

If you have a favorite that you would like to share that would be great.

Thanks.

Firmin Charlot, ITIL, MCSE, A+, Information Systems Manager

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