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REMOTE ADMINISTRATION TOOLS:

A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Anis Ismail, Mohammad Hajjar, Haissam Hajjar
Department of Computer Network and Telecommunications Engineering
University Institute of Technology – Saida
Lebanese University
Email: anismaiil@yahoo.com, m_hajjar@ul.edu.lb

ABSTRACT

One of the trends we have been observing for some time now is the blurring of divisional lines between
different types of malware. Classifying a newly discovered 'creature' as a virus, a worm, a Trojan or a
security exploit becomes more difficult and anti-virus researchers spend a significant amount of their
time discussing the proper classification of new viruses and Trojans. Depending on the point of view,
very often, the same program may be perceived as a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) allowing a
potentially malicious user to remotely control the system. A Remote Administration Tool is a remote
control software that when installed on a computer it allows a remote computer to take control of it. With
remote control software you can work on a remote computer exactly as if you were right there at its
keyboard. With fast, reliable, easy-to-use pc from remote control software, it lets you save hours of
running up and down stairs between computers. Remote control software allows you to take control of
another PC on a LAN, WAN or dial-up connection so you see the remote computer's screen on your
monitor and all your mouse movements and keystrokes are directly transferred to the remote machine.
Remote control software provides fast secure access to remote PC’s on Windows platforms. Hackers and
malware sometimes install these types of software on a computer in order to take control of them
remotely. Many remote administrator tools exist in the market and it is difficult to choose what you need.
As you are an IT support, you need to choose the software which leads your IT skills. After you
determine how much you want to manage remotely, the next step is to select the tools and supporting
components you need to accomplish your remote management tasks. Our paper entails evaluating many
remote control software which help you to select the remote administrator tools.

Keywords— Remote Administration Tool (RAT), LAN, WAN, control, WMI, RPC, Web.

1. INTRODUCTION
necessity. Letting employees tap into the office
ompanies are looking for ways to provide
C local area network “LAN” from customer sites,
cost-effective network access to their remote and
hotels, internet cafe and airport kiosks can greatly
mobile employees. For chronic problems PCs,
increase business efficiency, productivity and job
applications as remote assistant “remote
satisfaction. But mobile empowerment has a price,
administrator” can save time by giving you access
measured in IT administration and network
and control a remote PC via either a network or a
security.
dial-up connection. If your friend’s or relative’s
PC is running Windows XP professional, you can As more Information Technology departments
access the system remotely for free with a centralize and consolidate to reduce cost, many
computer running any version of windows, remote sites are left with no on-site IT support.
including Windows 95. Remote administration of computers is
increasingly common because of the significant
Today, providing remote and mobile workers
cost benefits; many tasks can be automated, and
with secure remote access to corporate networks is
the administrator does not have to physically visit
no longer luxury; it has become a business
each computer [1]. In their whitepaper on Remote

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Systems Administration, Stephen Packard and
Archie Andrews stated that remote systems
administration is a reasonable, economical
approach. Also, as networks and servers become
critical to nearly all business functions, more IT
departments are staffing or providing for some
type of round-the-clock monitoring and support.
While 7 by 24 support is a great capability, it is
limited by the ability to gain physical access to
off-site network devices and servers when they
lock up or cannot be accessed in-band. Even when
the problem occurs during business hours, the lack
of on-site IT staff may require an unskilled user to
work with the remote IT staff to correct the
problem. This is not a good use of the unskilled
user's time and may turn a small problem into a
large one.
Remote control software provides businesses
the ability to login and access computers
remotely. Utilizing remote control software
enables personnel to transfer files or folders
quickly and easily, and communicate by instant
message, text chat, or voice intercom from any PC,
cell phone, wireless PDA.
This fast, reliable, easy-to-use pc remote control
software saves you hours of running up and down
stairs between computers. The remote
administrator software allows you to take control
of another PC on a LAN, WAN or dial-up
connection so you see the remote computer's
screen on your monitor and all your mouse
movements and keystrokes are directly transferred
to the remote machine. These softwares provide
fast secure access to remote PC’s on Windows
platforms.
Many remote administrator tools exist in the
market and it is difficult to choose what you need.
As you are an IT support, you need to choose the
software which leads your IT skills. After you
determine how much you want to manage
remotely, the next step is to select the tools and
supporting components you need to accomplish
your remote management tasks.
There had been existing comparison charts of
many remote administrator softwares that had
been done over the Internet. We will mention the
important comparison between GoToMyPC and
PCAnywhere, and, RemotelyAnywhere and
PCAnywhere
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Remote-control solutions such as Citrix
Online’s GoToMyPC and Symantec’s
PCAnywhere™ are one way to provide cost-
effective network access to their remote and
mobile employees. With the GoToMyPC
Corporate product for enterprises, administrators
can roll out and manage a remote access solution
in minutes. It is a highly secure and cost-effective
way for employees to access their computers and
network resources remotely. Employees simply
access and work on their computers using any
Web browser. This paragraph document
demonstrates that GoToMyPC has significant
advantages over Symantec’s PCAnywhere™ [2].
GoToMyPC is significantly easier to
implement, configure and administer than
pcAnywhere™. GoToMyPC provides a cost-
effective, easy-to-implement, fast and secure way
to enable employees to remotely access corporate-
network resources. Users find that GoToMyPC is
convenient because it works from almost
anywhere and requires no configuration.
In contrast to PCAnywhere™, GoToMyPC is a
cost-effective solution for providing secure remote
access to corporate computing resources without
extra staff requirement, loss of security or loss of
performance. GoToMyPC is also far more
convenient for end users because it does not
require any client software, is accessible from any
Web browser and does not require prior
knowledge of the remote resource.
Administrators can easily deploy a remote-
access solution with a minimum of effort.
Additional security features can be deployed by
administrators to meet existing corporate security
policies. Overall, GoToMyPC provides lower total
cost of ownership than pcAnywhere™ [2].
If you have settled on Symantec’s PCAnywhere
for remote access to your corporate network, now
is the time to reconsider. RemotelyAnywhere is a
more secure, cost-effective, and powerful remote
administration solution that provides tools above
and beyond just remote control for complete
administration of workstations and servers on and
off the LAN.
RemotelyAnywhere deploys across your LAN
in just minutes, and provides secure remote access
to and administration of any machine on which it
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is installed. Unlike PCAnywhere,
RemotelyAnywhere requires no special client
software to be installed on your local machine.
RemotelyAnywhere is packed with robust
features such as a dashboard view of system
diagnostics, built in FTP and SSH server
functionality “in the Server Edition”, and superior
security and auditing mechanisms for HIPAA,
Sarbanes Oxley and other regulatory compliance.
Requiring far less configuration than
PCAnywhere, RemotelyAnywhere allows easy
and secure access from a Web browser to the
remote systems you manage [3].
RemotelyAnywhere provides you with fast and
secure remote access to your corporate network.
Built from the ground up to seamlessly integrate
with and complement existing Windows security
structures, it provides easy access to the corporate
LAN without enlarging its security perimeter.
With its easy maintenance and anytime anywhere
technology, RemotelyAnywhere provides a very
low total cost of ownership.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows,
the different techniques used in remote
Administration Tools, are discussed in section
two. An Analysis of competitive comparasion
between remote administrator tools is discussed in
section three, followed by Conclusions and Future
Enhancements in section four.
2. DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES USED IN
REMOTE ADMINISTRATION TOOLS
The purpose of this section is to present the
different methods and tools frequently used to
administer remote Windows systems, and which
let you able to access a command prompt and
perform basic system administration, such as view
and/or start/kill processes or services, reboot
machines and view system logs, observe what is
happening on the display, and even run GUI based
programs all remotely, that depends on each
features of these remote administrator softwares.
A. MSRPC “Win32 legacy management APIs”
The traditional method to administer remote
Windows systems is to use Win32 legacy
management APIs. These APIs can be easily
identified because they take a server name as one
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of their parameters, when the server name is empty
“NULL”, the API operates on the local server, and
when a server name is specified, the API operates
on the specified remote server. For instance, all
APIs with names starting with Net such as
NetShareEnum() belong to this class of APIs.
When used to administer a remote server, these
APIs use the MSRPC protocol, “Microsoft
implementation of the DCE RPC standard” with
the SMB transport. SMB is the core protocol of
Windows networks and operates on both port
139/tcp and 445/tcp. When used as a transport for
MSRPC, named pipes inside the IPC$ share are
used as RPC services endpoints. [4]
Microsoft Remote Procedure Call “RPC” is an
interprocess communication “IPC” mechanism
that enables data exchange and invocation of
functionality residing in a different process. That
process can be on the same computer, on the local
area network “LAN”, or across the Internet. The
Microsoft RPC mechanism uses other IPC
mechanisms, such as named pipes, NetBIOS, or
Winsock, to establish communications between
the client and the server. With RPC, essential
program logic and related procedure code can
exist on different computers, which is important
for distributed applications.
B. WMI “Windows Management
Instrumentation”
WMI “Windows Management Instrumentation” is
the management framework available in recent
Windows systems. WMI is built on the COM
“Component Object Model” infrastructure and can
thus operate remotely, using DCOM “Distributed
COM” [5]. In addition, several WMI-based
administration tools are available by default on
Windows systems to administer remote systems
using WMI.
Windows Management Instrumentation is an
infrastructure that enables you to access and
modify standards-based information about objects,
such as computers, applications, and network
components, in your enterprise environment.
Using WMI, you can create powerful
administration applications to monitor and respond
to specific events in your environment. For
example, you can create applications to check
CPU usage on your Windows Server 2003, based
servers and warn you when it exceeds a specified
level. Although WMI is a powerful tool for
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building customized applications, it does require a
certain amount of developing time and expertise.
Windows Management Instrumentation
Command-line “WMIC” provides a simplified
interface to WMI. By using WMIC, you can
access WMI based information using the
command line or scripts. You can use WMIC from
any computer where WMIC is enabled to manage
any remote computer. WMIC does not have to be
available on the remote computer.
Currently, testers of the Windows Management
Instrumentation “WMI” conduct tests through a
proprietary GUI interface, which does not allow
for negative testing or the logging of events and
methods.
C. GUI-oriented tools build in windows
Many Windows system administrators tend to use
graphical remote administration tools that allow
access to Windows GUI.
Recent Windows systems “Windows 2000,
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003” natively
support Terminal Services, the feature of
Windows NT that allow multiple concurrent
interactive logon sessions. The network protocol
used by Terminal Services is RDP, Remote
Desktop Protocol, and operates by default on TCP
port 3389.
Terminal Services rely on Windows authentication
to authenticate users establishing remote sessions.
In addition, applicative permissions are supported
by Terminal Services to restrict the category of
users allowed to establish Terminal Services
sessions, Permissions tab in the Properties of the
RDP-Tcp transport in Terminal Services
Configuration MMC snapin.
Remote Desktop, included with Windows XP
Professional, enables you to connect to your
computer across the Internet from virtually any
computer, Pocket PC, or Smartphone. Once
connected, Remote Desktop gives you mouse and
keyboard control over your computer while
showing you everything that is happening on the
screen. With Remote Desktop, you can leave your
computer at the office without losing access to
your files, applications, and e-mail. Your sales
force will be able to access the latest pricing sheet
from on the road by using Remote Desktop in
Windows XP Professional.
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With Remote Desktop, you can connect to your
work computer from home and access all of your
programs, files, and network resources as though
you were actually sitting in front of your computer
at work.
D. CLI-oriented tools
CLI “Command Line” remote administration tools
are sometimes needed, for instance to execute non-
interactively system administration scripts [6].
PsExec is a convenient tool for Windows systems
administrators because it allows to execute
processes on a remote system, provided the server
service is available “TCP ports 445 or 139” and
that you have local administrator credentials on the
remote system [7].
PsExec first copies its executable, psexesvc.exe,
contained in the psexec.exe binary, using SMB,
under %systemroot%\System32\, installs the
service and starts it. These steps require
administrator credentials.
If you are logged on with local credentials that
also correspond to local administrator credentials,
with a domain administrator account or with an
account with username and password identical to a
local administrator account on the remote system,
additional credentials are not needed.
Rcmd is a Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit tool
composed of a Windows service and a command-
line client that supports remote process execution.
The Rcmd service opens a named pipe,
\pipe\rcmdsvc. The Rcmd client establishes an
SMB session to the IPC$ share, authenticated with
an account that needs to have the
SeInteractiveLogonRight logon right "Allow log
on locally".
E. Web based tools
One of the major issues confronting information
systems “IS” managers today is how to provide
secure access to corporate IS resources to people
who are physically located outside of the corporate
network. In today's increasingly connected society,
traveling salespeople, telecommuters and staff
working extra hours all need real-time access to
resources on corporate networks.
For security reasons, these resources, such as
databases, sales tools and email are usually
protected by firewalls so that users outside the
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corporation cannot access them. Companies are F. Features

looking for ways to provide cost-effective network
access to their remote and mobile employees.
Many Remote-control solutions are one way to
provide this access.
The Web based remote administration tools like
GoToMyPC is a hosted service that enables secure
browser-based access to any Internet-connected
Microsoft Windows-based PC. Features include a
screen-sharing Viewer, drag-and-drop File
Transfer, Remote Printing, Guest Invite and Chat.
Corporate administrators have access to extensive
management and reporting tools that enable
central control over these remote-access services.
Figure 1 represents the availability of these
features “Main Features” in the available products
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Resolutions, Support Different Color Depth,
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Simultaneous Control & Client, Multiple Controls,
View Multiple Clients, Printer Redirection,
Scaleable Windows Record & Replay Session,
Watch, share, Control a Client PC, Send Ctl-Alt-
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4. CONCLUSION
Using remote administrator tools for graphical
remote administration of computers running
Windows can greatly reduce the administrative
overhead in any Windows 2000 Server or
windows workstation environment. Administrators
can access the servers from anywhere, be it inside
the computer room or from halfway around the
world over a WAN, VPN, or dial-up connection.
They can start time-consuming batch
administrative jobs (for example, tape backups),
disconnect, and dial-in to the corporate network at
a later time to check the progress.
Server application and operating system upgrades
can be completed remotely, as well tasks that are
not usually possible unless the administrator is
sitting at the console, such as domain controller
promotion/demotion and disk defragmentation.
Server file system tasks such as copying large files
and virus scanning are much more efficient when
performed within a remote tools session, rather
than using utilities that are executed on a PC
client.
Administration tasks are quicker and more
intuitive than using command line utilities,
although it is still possible to open up a command
shell. Administrators can also fully administer
Windows 2000 Servers using non-Windows 2000
clients.
Remote administrator tool is an affordable tool
that any small business owner can purchase
without having to consult his accountant.
Companies offer very flexible licensing policies
for Remote administrator tool that cover multiple
computers at minimal expense.
Remote administrator tool has no special hardware
requirements. Even if your old home computer is
what you use for running your business, it’s fast
enough for Remote administrator tool. If the
computer runs Windows, Remote administrator
tool will run on it, and it will run faster than any
other remote control software you can buy.
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An evaluation is being built on existing remote
administrator tools of the availability of features
and is expected to be one of the important
evaluations used by major high-energy research.
This evaluation let customers choose their need of
remote administrator tools carefully.
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