Mac Auditor is a program that allows you to scan volumes for Applications, Startup Documents (INIT), Control Panel Devices (CDEV) and Stacks. Its used primarily by auditors to make sure that the employee’s machine have only registered software on there machines. (Companies don’t like to be sued over petty things like software piracy) :-)
The best way to use the program is to put it on a floppy disk and go from machine to machine scanning the user's hard disks (and floppies).
After you launch the program, click on the options button to set what file types that you want to search for. If you want you can also include extract the version from the file by select “include version information”.
Select the drive that you want to scan and click the scan button. After the program is done scanning, it will display what it found in the list box. Save the report and then you can quit.
There is not much to the program. Its basically a cataloging program. The next version will be a full functioning application with printing and non modal behavior and maybe some kind of virus protection (I hope). There will also be a different version of this program available from Software Publishers Association (SPA). They have commissioned me to make the Mac version of their SPAudit program that is available for the IBM PC. ( I just love porting over IBM PC programs to the Mac , making them a thousand times better and watching the clients jaws drop as they see how much better, easier and faster it is on the Mac) :-)
This is a warning to all the big companies around the world that SPA is gearing up to audit YOU :-)
Our internal auditors were the beta testing team and they love this program. Its made their job much easier. If you would like more information on how to prepare and setup your company for auditing feel free to contact me and I will put in contact with our internal auditors who just love talking about this stuff.
You can contact me by phone a (415) 859-5011 or by email:
