Re: Preventing update pushes from network?

From: aagis (aagis_at_--delme--.noc.ntua.gr)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:09:47 +0200

Don't tell nobody but i think it would be enough
to disable the "Automatic Updates" service.
(unless they though of that too).

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> Thank you, access to the internet is all I require so
> this may be an alternative to look into.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>
>>Hi Ted,
>>
>>Any laptop is a potential threat to the health and
>
> security of the managed
>
>>network it is connecting to. Unmanaged laptops
>
> represent one of the
>
>>biggest threats to secutity of corporate computing
>
> domains. While
>
>>administrators have no control over what you might be
>
> running on that
>
>>machine, they have an obligation to protect their
>
> domain.
>
>>Discuss your concerns and objectives with a network
>
> administrator for the
>
>>Domain. Most update technology is pushed via Active
>
> Directory. It may be
>
>>possible for them to provide you with limited access
>
> (Internet for example)
>
>>without requiring you to log into their domain.
>>
>>=========
>>
>>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>
> confers no rights.
>
>>Windows XP Security Homepage:
>>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/security/default.asp
>>
>>Windows 2000 Security Homepage:
>>http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/security/default.asp
>>
>>Top 10 Windows Newsgroups Security Questions:
>>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/newsgroups/default.asp?
>
> url=/technet/newsgro
>
>>ups/nodepages/sectop10.asp
>>
>>=========
>>Paul Hayes, MCSE
>>Product Support Services
>>Microsoft Corporation
>>pauly@online.microsoft.com
>>
>>--------------------
>>| From: "Ted" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
>>| Subject: Preventing update pushes from network?
>>| Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:42:43 -0800
>>|
>>| I am using my personal laptop with XP for consulting
>>| work, my client is a huge fortune 500 company and does
>>| updates of its desktop systems all the time.
>>|
>>| I want to have internet access only and do not want
>
> them
>
>>| to modify or update my system in anyway through their
>>| network updates...How can I accomplish this?
>>|
>>| Thank you
>>|
>>
>>
>>.
>>

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