>> It evades me why Microsoft included this file extension at all. Your previous sentence seems to answer this nicely… And desktop-shortcuts to directories are sometimes very useful, yet completely harmless.
Regards, ASB On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 6:11 PM, Klaus Hartnegg [email protected] wrote: On 15.06.2016 at 17:27 Jonathan Link wrote: > No, you don't need Enterprise for SRP. I've used it as a poor mans > whitelisting app and basically blocked out everything in the User > profile folder except for the Desktop folder. Why exclude the Desktop folder? Shortcuts not working? I removed the file extension LNK from the list of blocked files, and then made whitelisting. Works mostly fine. I don't see a reason to block shortcuts (LNK-files). When a shortcut is allowed, but the program it points to is blocked, then the result is a block. And desktop-shortcuts to directories are sometimes very useful, yet completely harmless. It evades me why Microsoft included this file extension at all.
