RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Rochford
Of Chinnery, Paul Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:01 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware Well, I guess you'd have to define has. We run a hospital IS from a major healthcare s/ware vendor that has instructions on its customer website

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2006-09-18 Thread Crawford, Scott
. Preemptively giving rights to the keys was much faster. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steve Rochford Sent: Mon 9/18/2006 4:56 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware One of the problems with tweaking

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2006-09-18 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware One of the problems with tweaking permissions etc is that it can take a long time to get it right and you leave yourself in an unsupported position. As an example, we use a package called QL (from

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-18 Thread Crawford, Scott
AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware If the vendor supported the Designed for Windows XP logo they would support non admin. The reality is that these vendors can code in a Win98 world because we the buying public do not care. As long

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-18 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
, September 18, 2006 10:20 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware If the vendor supported the Designed for Windows XP logo they would support non admin. The reality is that these vendors can code in a Win98 world because we the buying

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-18 Thread Dave Wade
it From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Mon 18/09/2006 19:56 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware We need to ask the vendor to step up to the plate. (have I said I'm big

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2006-09-15 Thread Dave Wade
ED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chinnery, PaulSent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:04 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware We're using CounterSpy Enterprise from Sunbelt Software. Like you, we have seen aperformance hit*

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2006-09-15 Thread Chinnery, Paul
14, 2006 3:11 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware Nonadmin I peronally have had way less issues when users that don't need admin rights don't have them. Chinnery, Paul wrote: We're using CounterSpy Enterprise from Sunbelt Software

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2006-09-15 Thread Rob MOIR
2) Spy ware hangs around for a long time. Our users used to have admin rights so there is a lot of legacy spyware around Create a project to re-build these machines? If you've got a standard deployment image for workstations, this might not be too disruptive. 3) We still have business

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2006-09-15 Thread Mike Guest
One help might be to run in admin mode (since you have to) but launch ie and outlook from shortcuts which run as unprivileged accounts - that might cut down on SOME vectors. HTH(PS - the following info from Mark Russinovich uses this approach - I can't get it to open on blogger (it's from

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2006-09-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
. *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Chris Pohlschneider *Sent:* 14 September 2006 20:15 *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org *Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware I have not done a lot of research on this, but if you

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2006-09-15 Thread Dave Wade
- SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: 15 September 2006 14:53 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware www.threatcode.com and those business critical apps are? Have you tried hacking up the registry to get them to work? Dave Wade wrote: Chris, I

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2006-09-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/08/LUABugs/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chinnery, Paul Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 7:15 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware I agree

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-15 Thread Dave Wade
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob MOIR Sent: 15 September 2006 13:50 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware 2) Spy ware hangs around for a long time. Our users used to have admin

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-15 Thread Chinnery, Paul
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 11:56 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware I'm sure there are apps that are written exceptionally stupidly

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2006-09-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware 2) Spy ware hangs around for a long time. Our users used to have admin rights so there is a lot of legacy spyware around Create a project to re-build these machines? If you've got a standard deployment

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2006-09-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:01 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware Well, I guess you'd have to define has. We run a hospital IS from a major healthcare s/ware vendor that has instructions on its customer website on making a couple

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2006-09-14 Thread Chinnery, Paul
We're using CounterSpy Enterprise from Sunbelt Software. Like you, we have seen aperformance hit* on computers with just 128 meg of memory but that goes away when we add more memory. The only issue I ran into, other than performance, was it blocked a cookie that was necessary for our

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-14 Thread Brian Desmond
Had Trend OfficeScan with Damage Cleanup Service on somewhere between 60K and 90K devices. Worked great, they had graphs showing how well it worked based on some custom data collection they did. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL

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2006-09-14 Thread Dave Wade
Chris, I gather we tweaked ours so it only used a certain % of system resources (20% I think) and while it does have some impact on performance it does seem "livable with" now they have done that.. Dave. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
Nobody runs as a local administrator. We have zero issues with spyware. Coincidence? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Chris Pohlschneider Sent: Thu 9/14/2006 9:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-14 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Nonadmin I peronally have had way less issues when users that don't need admin rights don't have them. Chinnery, Paul wrote: We're using CounterSpy Enterprise from Sunbelt Software. Like you, we have seen aperformance hit* on computers with just 128 meg of memory but that goes away when we

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2006-09-14 Thread Chris Pohlschneider
: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:04 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware We're using CounterSpy Enterprise from Sunbelt Software. Like you, we have seen aperformance hit* on computers with just 128 meg of memory but that goes away when

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-14 Thread beads
: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware Had Trend OfficeScan with Damage Cleanup Service on somewhere between 60K and 90K devices. Worked great, they had graphs showing how well it worked based on some custom data collection they did. Thanks, Brian Desmond

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-14 Thread Chris Pohlschneider
Are all of your users in power user group or user group of their workstation? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:33 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-14 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Nope. Crawford, Scott wrote: Nobody runs as a local administrator. We have zero issues with spyware. Coincidence? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Chris Pohlschneider Sent: Thu 9/14/2006 9:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT:

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2006-09-14 Thread Robert Rutherford
] W:www.quostar.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: 14 September 2006 20:11 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

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2006-09-14 Thread joe
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware Nobody runs as a local administrator. We have zero issues with spyware. Coincidence? _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Chris Pohlschneider Sent: Thu 9/14/2006 9:44 AM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware Are all of your users in power user group or user group of their workstation? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:33 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

2006-09-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
I didn't think so :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 3:33 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware

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2006-09-14 Thread Akomolafe, Deji
? -anon From: joeSent: Thu 9/14/2006 3:03 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware I run as local admin and have zero issues with spyware? Coincidence? ;o) -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm

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2006-09-14 Thread joe
@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware Yes. You run Mac. LOL Sincerely, _ (, / | /) /) /) /---| (/_ __ ___// _ // _ ) / |_/(__(_) // (_(_)(/_(_(_/(__(/_(_/ /) (/ Microsoft MVP - Directory Serviceswww.akomolafe.com- we know IT-5.75, -3.23Do

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2006-09-14 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Touche 8-) Mike Thommes From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:04 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware I run as local admin and have zero issues

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2006-09-14 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Thommes *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *joe *Sent:* Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:04 PM *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org *Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware I