Hi there
As most of you know, Google released Chrome this week. We were wondering
how fast our software engineers would pick it up, so we went to our
latest Nessus report to see who had already installed it: answer zero.
Strange that - as I had it installed for starters! Ends up Google
doesn't register the app under
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Uninstall like you're
meant to. However, Google also has that "Google Update Service" - so I'm
beginning to wonder if they intend to bypass the "standard" application
management APIs and do it their own way for all their apps! :-(
And then the extension to that is - who else will do the same thing too?
Am I being paranoid, or will it be that software asset management
systems (and nessus) will be able to track less and less going forward?
--
Cheers
Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
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As most of you know, Google released Chrome this week. We were wondering
how fast our software engineers would pick it up, so we went to our
latest Nessus report to see who had already installed it: answer zero.
Strange that - as I had it installed for starters! Ends up Google
doesn't register the app under
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Uninstall like you're
meant to. However, Google also has that "Google Update Service" - so I'm
beginning to wonder if they intend to bypass the "standard" application
management APIs and do it their own way for all their apps! :-(
And then the extension to that is - who else will do the same thing too?
Am I being paranoid, or will it be that software asset management
systems (and nessus) will be able to track less and less going forward?
--
Cheers
Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
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Nessus mailing list
Nessus@list.nessus.org
http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus