Blocking Apps that don't need Admin Rights
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Just found Dropbox on a users computer, I was kinda stocked... (Is not allowed here)
Then I find out you don't need admin rights to install dropbox! Ugh.....
How do I block this?
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The simplest way to stop people from going to things they should go to would be with a content filter...
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If it does not require admin rights, then you do not easily.
@DustinB3403 said:
The simplest way to stop people from going to things they should go to would be with a content filter...
A content filter would do nothing for stopping DropBox from being installed.
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It would stop the person from getting to the site to install the app in the first place.
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Have a whitelist of apps, there are various ways of doing it, can you use group policy?
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@DustinB3403 said:
It would stop the person from getting to the site to install the app in the first place.
Nope. Most content filters run in transparent proxy mode and thus have no method available to stop much of anything because of SSL. https://www.dropbox.com/
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yeah a content filter without a cert installed on each end point wouldn't get you very far.
Instead you can block websites - that should help, but there are still ways around that - proxies, or the website has other addresses that you don't block, etc.
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@JaredBusch said:
@DustinB3403 said:
It would stop the person from getting to the site to install the app in the first place.
Nope. Most content filters run in transparent proxy mode and thus have no method available to stop much of anything because of SSL. https://www.dropbox.com/
And you can ssh tunnel to any server and view a website. So if you want dropbox and it was blocked just ssh -L 8080:www.dropbox.com:443 user@host and you're golden.
This is obviously for a website and not the app, but it's another way around a content filter.
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Software restriction policy.
GPO enforced
