Re: How can I prevent a student to install softwares on windows 98 machines?
From: Levrai (wd@qwd.com)Date: 10/11/02
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From: Levrai <wd@qwd.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:41:24 -0400
Thanks alot!
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:36:46 GMT, The Other Guy <nospam@this.addy>
wrote:
>On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:16:47 -0400, while waiting for Some Guy to show
>up and say something, The Other Guy responded to a post from Levrai
><wd@qwd.com> who wrote in comp.security.misc:
>
><no body to message>
>
>Since you've only left us with the subject and no other details, I am
>assuming that you are a school systems administrator or such that
>needs to restrict access to, say, lab computers commonly available to
>students, and trying to get around the Windows 98 lack of security as
>opposed to NT-based PCs that you can just restrict users permissions.
>
>For a software solution you can use a mix of Fortres 101, Clean slate
>(http://www.fortres.com/) and Tweak UI. It can be set up so that you
>can't delete stuff off the computers, file extensions are hidden,
>system files are hidden, restrictive read/write permissions, no
>loading of software, etc. It can take awhile to set it up and
>fine-tune your systems but is very effective.
>
>For 'recovery' situations, you can look at Go Back software from
>Roxio. It allows you to image the computer at a specific point in
>time, then afterwards you can allow changes to the computer. When it
>is rebooted later or when online at a specific time (say, midnight),
>Go Back will revert the computer back to the original image. It can
>be a very useful method of maintaining the computer's state, but still
>allows other things to be installed by students (although not
>permanently). See http://www.roxio.com/en/products/goback/index.jhtml.
>
>Make sure that you have something like Symantec Ghost, that you can
>take an image of what you only want on the computer, saved say to a
>network server, and make clones as needed. See
>http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?ProductID=3.
>
>For a hardware solution, you could consider something called "reborn
>card". It is a PCI card inserted into your computer's PCI slot. After
>initial installation, you can ask the card to capture a fresh copy of
>all software installed into your computer and use the copy to "reborn"
>your computer when needed. The "reborn" process takes only several
>minutes. See http://www.lenten.com/Solution_pclabs.asp.
>
>HTH
>T.O.G.
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