I'm sure there are apps that are written exceptionally stupidly, requiring admin, but I've yet to run across one. I've had lots of our guys tell me something HAS to have admin to run, but I've yet to run across one that really does. I suggest you read this article:
http://www.microsoft.com/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 but, unfortunately, the software being used requires local admin privileges. Which, as you might imagine, is quite frustratig. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Thursday, September 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. 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 payroll department. However, once I "okayed" that > cookie, it was fine. > > *According to Sunbelt, the next version is supposed to reduce the > performance impact. > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of *Chris > Pohlschneider > *Sent:* Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:44 AM > *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > *Subject:* [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware > > Just curious what other people are using for protecting against > adware/spyware? We are using Webroot Spysweeper right now, but I > see some performance hits on computers running this software and > it does work, but it causes headaches will installing some apps > that we approve. Any suggestions are appreciated. > > > > Chris Pohlschneider > > Holloway Sportswear IT > > 937-494-2559 > > 937-497-7300 (Fax) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I will hunt you down... http://blogs.technet.com/sbs List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
