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The following line came to my inbox recently courtesy of IDG Connect: "Servers are like attics. Start poking around and there's no telling what you might find. Hardware, applications, platforms, operating systems--all with varying layers of dust."

This cannot be further from truth. Windows have the memory loss complex, as they get older they slow down and begin to forget things. It is not the aging hardware, but rather the aging software that keeps pasting layer over layer of stuff that even the army of forensics and vulnerability researchers could entangle.

There are very few solutions today that actually try to discover and identify every piece of software running in your environment. This is not a cheap pitch for Bit9 Parity, but rather a call for an interesting exercise. Do you really know what is in your attic? Bit9 staff can fix you up with a simple trial where we are sure that you will be astonished in what is discovered. Bit9's Global Software Registry can then help you determine exactly where those allegedly rogue files come from.