Bypass Cisco on College wifi

[Nathernell Nelson]

Hey keep up the good work. Would you be able to do a post on how to bypass cisco clean agent also know as cisco NAC agent on a college wifi. My college only allow certain antivirus to meet the requirement and I love Avast but avast isn't one of the antivirus on their list. So if I dont have one of those anti virus that is not on their list I cannot connect. Mac computers can connect without meeting any of this requirement. So can you help me please?

[INDRANIL]

What do you want ??? Do you want to update it ?? If so then you can download the update from avast site. Do want to do other things like file sharing ?? . Ok I can only tell you that use Shared Networking.. Not much than that are allowed here.. Regards .

[hellnoire]

My suggestion would be to either download the offline definitions or talk to the technical department and see why they forbid Avast. Anything suggested beyond that might be construed as hacking.

[Raymond]

I have no experience with cisco clean agent or cisco NAC agent.
May I know if it needs to be installed on your computer?
If yes, my guess is it tries to scan somewhere on your computer for the presence of the software that they want you to install. I guess I would be able to help you figure out which key/file/process that the cisco clean agent is looking for.

[Nathernell Nelson]

I have no experience with cisco clean agent or cisco NAC agent.
May I know if it needs to be installed on your computer?
If yes, my guess is it tries to scan somewhere on your computer for the presence of the software that they want you to install. I guess I would be able to help you figure out which key/file/process that the cisco clean agent is looking for.

yes I have install it on my computer.

[Raymond]

OK, then I am pretty sure that the cisco agent checks for the antivirus presence.
May I know what antivirus does your college wants you to install?

[Nathernell Nelson]

They want me to use either or Ant-virus below, but I like avast for it protects my system.
List of Anti-virus:
AVG 8.0 [AntiVirus]
AVG 9 [AntiVirus] 9.x 4.7.1.500/3.4.8.1
AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.x 4.1.6.0/3.4.8.1
AVG Anti-Virus Free 9.x 4.7.1.500/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan 10.x 3.5.4/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan 11.x 4.1.0.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan 12.x 4.1.3.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan 13.x 4.1.7.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan 14.x 4.7.1.500/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan 4.5.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan 8.x 3.5.1/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan 8xxx 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan 9.x 3.5.1/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan 9xxx 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.0.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.1.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.5.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7.x 4.1.6.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.x 3.6.5.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Home Edition 7.x 4.0.6.1/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Professional 8.x 3.5.1/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Professional 8xxx 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Professional 9.x 3.5.1/3.4.8.1
McAfee VirusScan Professional Edition 7.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
McAfee unknown product x 3.5.5/3.4.8.1
Total Protection for Small Business 4.7.x 4.1.8.0/3.4.8.1
Total Protection for Small Business 4.x 4.0.5.1/3.4.8.1
Total Protection for Small Business 5.x 4.7.1.0/3.4.8.1
Norton 360 (Symantec Corporation) 1.x 4.1.1.0/3.4.8.1
Norton 360 (Symantec Corporation) 2.x 4.1.3.2/3.4.8.1
Norton 360 (Symantec Corporation) 3.x 4.1.8.0/3.4.8.1
Norton 360 (Symantec Corporation) 4.x 4.7.2.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 10.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 14.x 4.1.0.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 15.x 4.0.6.1/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 16.x 4.1.7.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 17.x 4.7.1.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 18.x 4.8.0.0/3.4.13.1
Norton AntiVirus 2002 8.00.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2002 8.x 3.5.1/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2002 Professional 8.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2002 Professional Edition 8.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2003 9.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2003 Professional 9.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2003 Professional Edition 9.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2004 10.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2004 (Symantec Corporation) 10.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional 10.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional Edition 10.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2005 11.0.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2006 12.0.x 3.5.5/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2006 12.2.x 4.7.1.500/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2006 12.x 3.5.5/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.x 3.5.1/3.4.8.1
Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.0 for Windows NT 7.x 4.7.1.500/3.4.8.1
Norton Internet Security 16.x 4.1.7.0/3.4.8.1
Norton Internet Security 7.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton Internet Security 8.0.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Norton Internet Security 8.2.x 3.5.1/3.4.8.1
Norton Internet Security 8.x 3.5.1/3.4.8.1
Norton Internet Security 9.x 3.5.10.1/3.4.8.1
Norton Internet Security (Symantec Corporation) 10.x 4.1.0.0/3.4.8.1
Norton Security Scan 1.x 4.1.3.0/3.4.8.1
Norton SystemWorks 2003 6.x 3.5.3/3.4.8.1
Norton SystemWorks 2004 Professional 7.x 3.5.4/3.4.8.1
Norton SystemWorks 2005 8.x 3.5.3/3.4.8.1
Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier 8.x 3.5.3/3.4.8.1
Norton SystemWorks 2006 Premier 12.0.x 4.1.0.0/3.4.8.1
Symantec AntiVirus 10.x 3.5.3/3.4.8.1
Symantec AntiVirus 9.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Symantec AntiVirus Client 8.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Symantec AntiVirus Server 8.x 4.1.0.0/3.4.8.1
Symantec AntiVirus Win64 10.x 4.0.5.1/3.4.8.1
Symantec AntiVirus 用戶端 8.x 4.6.1/3.4.8.1
Symantec Client Security 10.x 3.5.3/3.4.8.1
Symantec Client Security 9.x 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.x 4.0.6.1/3.4.8.1
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.x 4.7.1.0/3.4.8.1
Symantec Endpoint Protection Agent 5.x 4.8.0.0/3.4.13.1
Symantec Scan Engine 5.x 4.0.5.1/3.4.8.1
Symantec unknown product x 3.5.4/3.4.8.1
Sophos Anti-Virus 6.x 4.0.1.0/3.4.8.1
Sophos Anti-Virus 7.x 4.0.5.1/3.4.8.1
Sophos Anti-Virus 9.x 4.7.1.500/3.4.8.1
Sophos Anti-Virus version 3.80 3.80 3.5.0/3.4.8.1
Sophos unknown product x 3.5.4/3.4.8.1

[Raymond]

That's a pretty outdated list probably your college did not update their Cisco NAC.
Why don't you try installing Norton Security Scan? Reason is NSS doesn't run in background.
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/WelcomePage.asp

[Nathernell Nelson]

and would I be able to run avast on system at same time without any problem like slowing down of laptop or any other issues?
the people in charge of the Wifi dont care much about the students. all they care about is the faculty members and they all have macs so they dont need the software to get on the network. Students to them there are like hitch hikers or piggybacking on the system.

[Raymond]

Since Norton Security Scan doesn't protect your computer in real-time, it shouldn't affect Avast nor will it slow your computer down. Just takes very little space to store the application.