Re: Symantec LiveUpdate and User Rights on Win2000

From: Matt Burnett (marukka_at_mac.com)
Date: 05/26/05

  • Next message: Bundschuh, Anthony D: "RE: Symantec LiveUpdate and User Rights on Win2000"
    Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 15:59:51 -0500
    To: "Bundschuh, Anthony D" <ANTHONY.D.BUNDSCHUH@saic.com>
    
    

    Couldn't you give users the appropriate permissions to the files/reg
    keys that are modded/added? To find out goto www.sysinternals.com and
    download filemon.exe and regmon.exe.

    On May 26, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Bundschuh, Anthony D wrote:

    > You can add the users to the power users group. Power users can
    > install
    > virus definitions.
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Joe George [mailto:j.george@conservation.org]
    > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:56 AM
    > To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: FW: Symantec LiveUpdate and User Rights on Win2000
    >
    > Greetings all,
    >
    > We are currently in the process of removing Administrative rights
    > from end
    > users. As you may already know, when someone logs in with only
    > User rights,
    > they are no longer able to install AV definitions through the
    > LiveUpdate
    > feature. This is one of the most crucial things we'd like our
    > clients to be
    > able to access in case they are on travel or working remotely. A
    > Trojan/virus has less of a chance of being initialized under user
    > rights,
    > but it is important that the user be able to maintain the
    > definitions if
    > needed. Is there a tweak out there?
    >
    > Thanks in advance.
    >
    > Best Regards,
    >
    > Joe George
    > IT Analyst
    > Conservation International
    >


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