RE: Alternative to Windows Explorer

From: Eric Thirolle (SecurityFocus_at_bluegecko.com)
Date: 06/04/04

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    To: "Locher Thomas" <Thomas.Locher@swarovski.com>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
    Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:47:54 -0400
    
    

    Litestep is the "longest living Windows Replacement Shell". I don't have
    much experience with it, so can't say much specific about it. It would
    probably require some education of your users, which is a downside. It is
    highly flexible & configurable, so possibly you could create a shell that
    approximates Explorer quite closely.

    http://lsdocs.shellfront.org/
    http://www.litestep.net/

    Eric

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Locher Thomas [mailto:Thomas.Locher@swarovski.com]
    Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:40 AM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Alternative to Windows Explorer

    Dear List,

    we are trying to work out a policy, that every admin should be logged on to
    his client (WinXP-SP1) with a non-administrative account (smartcard logon)
    and start the programs for administrative tasks with the runas - command as
    admistrator. That works rather good, the account cannot access our
    fileservers and all the other things that can be compromised by a worm or
    virus.
    There's just one problem, you can't start windows explorer with runas. We
    use the internet explorer (runas with the administrative account) for
    managing file servers, but this is rather bad (for example there is no
    automatic refresh). Is there an alternative to windows explorer with the
    same features? The few i found cannot access the network by typing UNC
    Paths, only with mapped drives - they are more useful for local usage.

    Best regards,
    Thomas

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