On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Dallin Terry <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought Cisco had changed it so the user agent wasn't the only thing
> it looked at to identify your system.

Not that I know of.

I use my Windows partition on my laptop quite a bit and the last thing
I want is that stupid Cisco software installed in my browser.  In
addition to increasing the attack surface of the browser, I refuse to
run Symantec's latest crapware so the scan would always fail.

To avoid it I use the User Agent Switcher addon [1] for Firefox to
change all instances of "Windows" to "Linux".  Switching temporarily
to my Linux UA I can get on the wireless network without installing
anything and then switch back to the default for normal browsing.

But shhhh.  Don't tell OIT or they'll try and "fix" it.

Nick

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
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