Re: Limiting exe permissions

From: Rene (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/25/05 

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:30:21 -0500

Well, the download of the setup file is from the Internet but once the user
click on the Setup.exe, the program gets installed on the computer and I
believe it will no longer answer to the Internet permission right?

The other option that I am giving my users it to download all the files via
zip file, they can then extract the files to a folder on their computer and
simply double click my exe from them. I believe that if they do that the
Internet permission won't take effect either.

Am I right?

"Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor]" <dbaier@pleasepleasenospamdevelop.com>
wrote in message news:791716632605544772877520@news.microsoft.com...
> Hello Rene,
>
> that's the default. Just try it - if your program is coming from the
> internet zone it has very limited permissions. If you want to lower
> permissions for interet originating programs in general you have to modify
> the Internet permission set in mscorcfg.msc
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
> http://www.leastprivilege.com
>
>> I recently finished a C# program that is based on the .Net 1.1
>> framework and I am planning to make this program available as a
>> download from the Internet.
>>
>> Since the program is something you can download from the Internet and
>> since most people are afraid of running application from companies
>> they don't know anything about, I would like to tell my user how to
>> protect them selves from my own application in case they are concern
>> that my program may have a virus or some sort of spy ware (it does not
>> but I can't ask them to blindly trust me).
>>
>> To achive this, I tried running the "Trust and Assembly" utility from
>> the ".Net Wizard" section and set the permission for my application to
>> "None". After doing that, I was expecting not to be able to run the
>> program but I was still able to run it.
>>
>> My question is: What do I need to do to assign a permission to my
>> application so that it is not be able to browse other directories in
>> my computer, access the registry, make screenshots etc.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
>
>

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