The heuristic scanner can be configured to identify virtual application images and the virtual applications contained within them. The heuristic scanner automatically associates the virtual applications with the virtual application images that contain them.
You can choose which virtual application technologies to detect in the heuristic scanner configuration dialog. Microsoft App-V applications are detected by querying the App-V Client, if installed. ThinApp Virtual Applications are detected during the Start menu and Desktop scan. Therefore, the Start menu and Desktop scans must be enabled, if ThinApp heuristic detection is enabled.
The heuristic scanner takes the software it finds at face value, and reports it as such. Therefore, it is possible to deceive the scanner by intentionally modifying the external appearance of a virtual application image.
The heuristic scanner creates new software definitions for the software it discovers. These instances of software cannot be correlated with regular instances of software in reports and queries.
The heuristic scanner cannot detect streamed ThinApp virtual applications.
For these reasons, CA recommends continuing to use the signature scanner to inventory virtual application images, unless you already use the heuristic scanner as the primary source of software inventory in your enterprise.
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