Restricting Program Downloads and Installation

From: Serge CAlderara (serge.calderara@maillefer.net)
Date: 02/20/03


From: "Serge CAlderara" <serge.calderara@maillefer.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:04:05 -0800


Hi john,

I have seen in your message that you have manage to
disable Wininstaller, Add/Remove from control panel and
use of command prompt.
I am interresting on that because I would like to prevent
my user from installing other software that those
installed with the image I made, even if one of them mange
to get Administrator rights.

How did you do that? Does it work for W2k pro?

Regards
Serge

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm trying to determine how to stop clients on my network
>from downloading and installing programs via the internet.
>The clients do require the ability to down load files
>from different sites, but I need to restrict there ablity
>to download and install Programs. I have set a group
>policy that prevents program installation from removable
>media, except for administrators, disabled the
>wininstaller for both machine and user, diabled the
>add/remove programs from control panel and the use of the
>command prompt. However, on the test bench I can still
>install a program if I download it from the Internet.
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>John
>.
>



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