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Detecting a program on a remote computer, Possible?

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:02 pm
by RottNKorpse
I have had people contacting me saying there is a virus on my site but I've done countless scans and found nothing...It is all due to the fact that Norton and McAfee are utter garbage.

So I was wondering, is there a way I could add something to detect if a user has one of those programs running and if so to display a message to them about it?

I realize that this is a weird question and the answer very well and most likely is no but I just wanted to ask to make sure.

Re: Detecting a program on a remote computer, Possible?

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:52 pm
by Christopher
You could check the client signature of their crawler that scans the site. It may identify them.

Re: Detecting a program on a remote computer, Possible?

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:02 pm
by RottNKorpse
ahh never thought of that...thanks for the idea.