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CCleaner for Labtech As A Security Tool

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The recent announcement that LabTech Software is managing the the sale of CCleaner for Business licensing and  providing free of charge the popular CCleaner for LabTech plugin developed by the Plugins4LabTech team is huge for the LabTech community. Every MSP knows the benefits of using CCleaner to maintain disk space and reduce junk on client PCs but most are unaware of the amazing security tool they have as well.

 

CCleaner a security tool? Absolutely, CCleaner is a great security tool to assist in maintaining password policies across the client and reducing the exposed footprint of the end users. Just have a look at another plugin provided freely by Plugins4LabTech called PassPort. This plugin scans the MSP’s client base for saved password and account info. It pulls this data directly out of the local windows PCs across the MSPs clients and brings all that data back to LabTech. This tool represents just how easy it is to get to this data and if you can get it, anyone can get it. CCleaner for Labtech can help prevent this data from reaching the wrong hands.

 

CCleaner for LabTech does this by automating the cleaning process across the entire MSP.  By forcing a daily cleaning of all Browser Cache, Saved Passwords and Cookies will reduce the attack surface of each PC and trains the users to be more security minded by prevent them from getting value from saving passwords and allowing tracking and monitoring cookies to follow user’s browsing history.

For pennies a month a MSP can plugin to this powerful tool and really provide a value to their clients while helping to keep them safe! For more information on how to get CCleaner for LabTech please reach out to your LabTech Sales team. They will be glad to assist you and get you going with this great tool.

 

Also check out http://www.plugins4labtech.com for a complete list of free plugins for LabTech Software.

LabTech – SurfLog Plugin stores browser history for IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari

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Squidwork’s garage is launching another neat plugin that fetches the browsing history from 4 major browsers available on Windows systems. SurfLog collects the browser history for Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers and stores that data inside the LabTech database. The plugin in version 1.0  reads the last 30 days of logs and displays them on the computer console, allows you to launch a new scan and refresh your current view. You can also use the Clear All Logs button to remove all current logs for the computer your viewing or export the data into Excel.

 

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Each column is sort able so you are able to see by Browser Type, URL, Site Title, User Profile or the number of visits to a URL. The plugin comes with one script that collects the data and should be scheduled on widows client groups for once a day.

The Surflog script only grabs the last 24 hours of logs to keep from get to much data that it then cannot import  correctly in to the LT database using LT scripting. For this reason you should schedule script to run every 24 hours or less. It will not duplicate any entries into the database so you can run it every hour if you like and only new items will be added to the database. The Surflog script also manages the retention policy and will clear out logs based on the set policy. You can set the policy on the Info Tab of the Client console under the sub tab [SurfLog].

Enable SurfLog on a per client basis

Client Console ->Info Tab -> SurfLog Tab -> Enable Surflog Collection

You can enable Surflog Collection on a per client bases by enabling each client that you would like the collection process to run on. You should schedule the script to run on all windows systems for all systems in labtech then use the enable feature to allow scanner to run or not for each client. The script will validate whether or not to run based on this setting.

SurfLog History Retention

Client Console ->Info Tab -> SurfLog Tab -> Retention Policy

You can set the retention policy for each client between 1 and 90 days, as the collection script runs it will look at the policy for the client and will clear out history based on the retention policy set.

 

A “Client” must be enabled for any scans on systems under that client to run even if directly scheduled on that system! 

SurfLog Key Word Highlight

Client Console ->Info Tab -> SurfLog Tab -> Key Words List

If you place a comma “,” separated list of words in this field the view of each log under this client will highlight those rows where the words show up in the URL, Title and Visit From columns.

 

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excelFileWe added the ability to surf the links from the history and you can now export the browser history to Excel.

 

 

 

 

 

New in version 1.1.0 Cloud hosted LT servers are now fully supported. Just edit the collector script to enable or disable cloud support. See [Grab Surf Logs] script notes for more information.

Get SurfLog 1.1..1

 

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Feel free to donate to our cause if you find this software useful, Help keep our software free.

 ———New in Version 1.0.5———–
Added new Client Tab with Client level view of all browser histories.

 

———New in Version 1.0.6———–
Added threading to Excel exports.
Fixed display of Keyword box.
Added UK Time Support to Powershell collector scripts.

——-New in Version 1.1.0 —————-

Rewrote Export function, now really fast and works!
New look and feel
All new graphs and pie charts
Fixed several display issues

 

—-New in Version 1.1.0.25 —————–
Added support for LT10.5
Plugin now loads script and edfs automatically, no script imports needed
Added auto plugin updater so you will not need to update plugin manually again.

 

We give a shout out to  www.nirsoft.net for their  BrowserHistoryView application that provides the CSV creator. Thanks for a great tool.

 

Cubert 😎