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There are some employee in company that installed pirated software in their PC and I scared they use for commercial use, so, I decided to use kind of a software to detect whether their PC installed any pirated software or any web site that may help detect??

Any suggestions?

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There is no way to tell whether software is pirated on a technical level, simply because there are many ways to pirate software (registration key generators, patches, etc.).

You could prevent people installing any software at all using a technical solution, which is what I'd suggest.

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Any determination like that would start with a few things:

Install the Microsoft Genuine Advantage tool. That will clearly tell you if you have bogus Microsoft products. http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag/

For other items, you are going to have to start with an audit. After the audit, you will have a much better idea of what your company is running compared to what it bought.

Here are some software audit tools: http://www.bsa.org/country/Tools%20and%20Resources/Free%20Software%20Audit%20Tools.aspx

Also, you can use spiceworks: http://www.spiceworks.com/

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You can use ManageEngine's Desktop Central. It will monitor any new software installation.

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