Data collected by the Harvester tool
Harvester Tool will collect software data from target computers. The following information is collected.
- all information provided in the uninstall registry
- all services and the executables they point to
- all shortcuts on the desktop of all users and executables they point to
- all pinned applications and executables they point to
- all running tasks in the Task Manager and executables they point to
- all programs listed in the start menu of:
- Everyone
- All the individual users
- (Local and Roaming data)
- Information is collected from both 32-bit and 64-bit executables
- Following data is collected from the start menu programs, desktop shortcuts, pinned applications, services and task manager:
- Shortcuts
- Shortcut file name
- Path to the shortcut
- Description
- Executable name
- Executable path
Note:
- Readme Files (readme.txt/readme.html/readme.htm/readme/info/Info.txt - case insensitive) present in the target path
- License Files (license.txt/license.html/License - case insensitive)
- If a Readme file or License file is larger than 10kB, the file is truncated and only the first 10kb is used by the harvester tool.
- If a target directory includes executables from other application, those executables are also scanned for collecting data.