Identifying a certain Windows machine

[Joe F.]

Thanks for covering that 1% Alex.
Added a notes field to my script library.

Joe F.

On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Joe F. wrote:
>> Wow- that is some answer. Thank you Monte.
>>
>> I was actually expecting something like "getSystemID" to be built  
>> into Revtalk, but...
>>
>> You inspired me to make myself a script library.
> Note this approach works 99% of the time, but can go wrong (or at  
> least be very confusing) if the user has installed any devices which  
> have an in-built MAC address (e.g. a USB Wifi card, perhaps to get  
> better reach than the in-built wifi gets, he says from  
> experience :-).  This may be the MAC address reported first, giving  
> an "ID" which can later change.
>
> It might be better to do a filter on ""Physical address" and then  
> regard each of the physical addresses as valid IDs (disregarding the  
> 00-00-00-00-00-00 ones for virtual adapters).
>
> And as Peter said, a smart user can find a way around it anyway, a  
> smart and malicious user will definitely get around it.
>
> -- Alex.
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