Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: bedouin on 3 July 2006, 06:02
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I'm administering a small group of machines running Windows 2000 and Firefox and needed a way to prevent people from changing the start page or proxy settings; surprisingly there's no extensions that can do this (that I found) though i did find this:
http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/03/locking-mozilla-firefox-settings.html
May be useful for someone else who administers a lab and has a no-IE policy as well (the IE settings are easy enough to lock down, though).
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Just out of interest how do you prevent them from using IE?
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i think he might delete
ie or lock down every page with the restriction thing
in the tools :)
and/or criple ie's exe
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I took away user permissions to run IEXPLORER.EXE. It doesn't stop someone from opening My Computer and typing a URL into the location bar, but it's good enough for most.
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Just out of interest how do you prevent them from using IE?
XP-lite or Linux, both are trivial-enough solutions. :)
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or you could block the IE agent-string at the gateway, redirect them to a "go fook yourself" page or something. since IE can't change the string...