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Another Way To Ban Skype |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Friday, 12 May 2006 |
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German P2P filtering specialist iPoque sells an appliance which will monitor and block the use of Peer to Peer applications including Skype. In support of the new Skype filtering capabilities on its traffic management solution, the company began a Google AdWords campaign responding to keywords such as “block Skype” and “Skype filter”.
The campaign was stopped by Google's German office after a complaint from Skype based on its trademark rights.
In another case reported in the story referenced above, Skype quickly went out and registered the .info .biz .net .org etc versions of the website www.skypekiller.com when it was registered late last year (curiously it didn't register the .com.au version which is still up for grabs if you're interested.
In fact, VoIPnews was unaware of the product until the Google adverts began appearing on our site today.
But if you have done a cost/benefit analysis of the product and are determined to remove Skype from your network, there’s a way other than purchasing network filtering equipment.
SkypeKiller, from IS Decisions, a French software company, is a freely downloadable agent that is designed to seek out and destroy Skype installations on your company network.
The agent can be launched from an administrator account and may be configured to target all computers, filtered sub-sets based on operating system or hardware configurations, or more granular targeting down to individual machines.
The software then goes off and scans the targeted computers deleting the install folder, profiles and a number of registry keys/values.
It then reports back with details of which machines had the software installed and confirms the actions taken to remove it. Skypekiller can also be scheduled to run automatically to ensure the client is removed if re-installed by persistent users.
If you are not sure if you should get rid of Skype, or if you want to take advantage of the huge popularity of the easy setup and low cost VoIP services, you can get advice on implementing it in the safest way possible. The company offers advice (including a 35 page PDF document) for network administrators to help them secure their network - here.
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