Kaseya Agents & You

[Stephen]

so is it a weakness in the client that someone can break into, or is
it a heathy paranoia of such clients exiting with a managed company
that you may or may not trust?

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> This agent allows a remote party to completely control or watch everything
> done on the desktop on various systems using a Firefox or script plugin.
> It's similar to LivePerson cookies but much more powerful.
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> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> here is a question from me, you have a weath of information on how to
>> remove it, but no links as to why?
>>
>> this is the first time i have seen this product so i have heard very
>> little one way or another.
>>
>> if you have links as to why its a bad application to have then i would
>> like to hear it/see it.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Kaseya:
>> >
>> > Sometimes a Free Tool, Sometimes a convenient Hack,  Sometimes a
>> > Government
>> > Surveillance Tool?
>> >
>> > How to Remove a Kaseya Agent:
>> >
>> > 1) Windows Hidden Type:
>> > "%programfiles%\InstallShield Installation
>> > Information\{48C76121-4F90-11D5-9884-0050BA85A903}\Setup.exe" UNINSTALL
>> >
>> >
>> > 2) OS X:
>> >
>> > 1. Download the file KaseyaUninstall.pkg.zip file from here, and copy it
>> > onto the Mac.
>> >
>> > 2. Expand the ZIP archive.
>> >
>> > 3. Run KaseyaUninstall.pkg installer and choose to Install to the
>> > Macintosh
>> > Harddrive. Although this appears to be installing a product, it is
>> > actually
>> > running the uninstallation script for the Kaseya agent.
>> >
>> > 4. Log in with the user that installed the agent initially and delete
>> > the
>> > /var/tmp/kpid file. To do this launch Terminal and run the "rm -rf
>> > /var/tmp/kpid" command.
>> >
>> > 5. Remove the agent with root rights, i.e. in Terminal run the "sudo rm
>> > -rf
>> > /var/tmp/kpid" command and then provide the root password
>> >
>> > 6.  The Kaseya agent and associated files will be removed.
>> >
>> > WorkArounds:
>> >
>> > Chrome does not currently have an active Kaseya Agent plugin for OS X or
>> > Linux Chrome:
>> > http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chrome+kaseya+osx&aq=f
>> >
>> > References:
>> >
>> > http://www.kaseya.com/free/features.aspx
>> > http://www.kaseya.com/solutions/government.aspx
>> >
>> > http://community.kaseya.com/ittoolkit/b/weblog/archive/2010/06/09/creative-ways-to-get-it-toolkit-installed-on-a-computer.aspx
>> >
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>> Stephen
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen