Software Restriction Policies
Imagine if you could prevent a new virus from running on your systems even before your anti-virus vendor had prepared and made public a signature. Imagine if you could prevent well-known but forbidden software such as games or administrative tools from being run by anyone on your system. Imagine if you could prevent as-yet-unknown malicious software from running at all. Would you buy the product that allowed you to do so?
You don't have to. If you have Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Professional, you already have such a product. Software Restriction Policies is a component that was introduced with Windows XP Professional for the management of a single computer. You can use Windows Server 2003 to write group policies ...
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