I'm running spiceworks ver 6.1.
I'm the new IT guy at a small company with around 70 pc's or so, so it's nothing too major but I wanted a way to keep a birds eye view on things.
Our network here has been poorly managed (if not mismanaged) in the past and I'm trying to right some wrongs by taking a proactive approach to things.
Lately we've had an issue with some virus' on the network (due to the previous person never updating a ton of machines to SP3 - thus exposing them to so many vulnerabilities); we have a consultant who handles the servers and the management of them. While I have the knowledge and have done this in other roles, the company feels he is a necessity and allows him to manage the servers while I handle everything else. He noticed that on the servers (Server 2003, Server 2000) there is a folder being created under C:/Windows/Temp/spiceworks that has a number of scripts in it. He is worried this is a security vulnerability on the network and is causing or could cause some issues down the road. I think the age of our hardware is more to be worried about than spiceworks - but I digress.
My question is - why does spiceworks do this? Is there a way to prevent it from doing that? I looked on desktop PC's that are being inventoried and I do not see the same folder being created - is it something particular to servers that it creates that directory? I'm looking for perhaps a more indepth explanation as to:
A) Why this happens
B) Issues that can stem from this
C) Ideas on how to present facts to this server admin as to why spiceworks will not harm anything and can continue to be used to monitor servers.
Thanks in advance.