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I don't understand why the customer was dissatisfied...
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Sorry to interupt the Lounge;
I remember a long time ago, someone posted a link to a app that prevents people from loading programs on windows 7+
It was written by a Code Project member that hangs out here.
I think it was in response to the Russian app that encrypts your hard drive and demands a payment to unlock it.
I downloaded it years ago, and put it on this girls computer that I deemed reckless, and it works like a charm, but I can't locate the program or remember the name of it so I can load it on another computer in the warehouse.
Here's the story,
Literally, somebody walked in the warehouse and connected a phone or something in the USB port and loaded a nasty app that tapped the internet connection, created a sql database, and made recording. Then it called home and transferred the data home to Poland.
If it ain't broke don't fix it
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jkirkerx wrote: Sorry to interupt the Lounge;
As you should be. There was important business going on.  Now I have to start over counting.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Installer > Disable Windows Installer works for me.
When I want to install something, I just temporarily undo it.
In a company environment, just leave it disabled for most people.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Unfortunately, that only works for applications that use Windows Installer. If they use something else (Inno Setup for example), the install can go skip past the group policy block.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's deja vu all over again!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just wanted to make sure the OP saw the link. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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A long time ago, someone said something on the internet -- can you help me find it?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Sure! It's over there, in the bit bucket.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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glad you guys had fun with the post!
and I did see the links and ideas which are great!
If it ain't broke don't fix it
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Welcome to the CP Lounge!
A place where real diamonds can be found in the piles of manure!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Diamonds are great, but the corn and peas are revolting. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Yes!
That was it!
Thanks!
If it ain't broke don't fix it
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I don't get it. A creep walked into your girl's warehouse and install malware into her computer? Why use a cryptoprevent program when you should simply turn on bitlocker on your girl's computer? This unknown person will not be to walk into the warehouse and mess with it then. Of course, this unknown person can bring it home if he wants. I am worried with your girl's home security.
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Now I'm starting to think the warehouse workers are plugging their phones into the computer to charge.
Or it's the old FedEx Program, in which we stopped using FedEx, removed the software but a small program was left on the machine.
Still working on it the theory of how it happened.
If it ain't broke don't fix it
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You're talking about application white listing. Search for "application whitelisting Windows" into your favorite search engine.
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So don't download stoopid apps just for the sake of it.
commonSense != rocketSurgery;
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If only it was just the apps...
"Common sense", as you put it, would also suggest you don't buy into an abandoned platform. I have Android devices (4.3 and 4.4) that never got a single update from their manufacturers. Total abandonware the moment I walked out the store. These versions are now known to have security holes and they're not getting patched. I also have an Android 6.0 tablet, and it also hasn't had a single update. If history's any indication, I shouldn't expect to see one throughout its lifetime either.
Yet the Windows Phones, which everybody is proclaiming as dead, are still getting plenty of updates. I'm on the Insider program. I installed the creators update on my Lumia 640 a few weeks ago, and as I'm writing this, it's just about done installing build 15210, which came out a few hours ago.
Which one do I feel compelled to use? I'll give you a hint: It's not the one that forces me to buy new hardware if I want to have a mobile OS that gets regularly patched.
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