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Title: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: Graham on December 17, 2003, 02:49:29 PM

Hi Smithers !

Does anyone know of any small freeware windows utility
that will prevent IE from being used without supplying a
pasword first ?

Or indeed any other method of preventing IE from being
used without permission ?

I want something that will run under Win and dont want
to start editing router configs etc - ie the simpler the better!

TIA !

Title: Re: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: Byte on December 17, 2003, 03:34:32 PM

I know you said something on windoze but you could use a proxy on the server side...If you do then you might want to search under proxy pass as this has been answered many times.

I myself dont know of any such tool sorry

Byte

Title: Re: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: Del on December 17, 2003, 04:17:22 PM

Hi Graham,
This freeware program might be what you are looking for: http://www.webattack.com/get/ppslite.html
It allows you to add a password to any .exe file thus preventing it from being executed without the correct password and IE is a .exe file after all. Hope this helps.
Regards,
Del

Title: Re: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: Graham on December 17, 2003, 05:53:25 PM

Thanks Del,

However wont work with IE 6.0 SP1

Will keep searching . . . .

Title: Re: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: Finchwizard on December 18, 2003, 01:30:31 AM

What you are wanting is the Proxy Authentication RPM.

Located here:

http://www.pagefault.org/code/e-smith.shtml#proxyauth

Just follow those Instuctions, this will make it so that all users will have to supply their username and password that is on the server.

If they don't do this, Access to the Internet will be denied.
This is a good way to montior what ppl are doing on the internet as well with a program called Sarg.

Hope this helps
Finchwizard

Title: Re: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: jose velez on December 18, 2003, 03:46:06 AM

You can download it from here http://www.e-smith.dyndns.org.  It works with 5.5 and 5.6 version.  You can also add squidguard to limit which site and sarg to report usage.

Title: Re: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: Hardijs on December 18, 2003, 03:01:45 PM

well the person seeks a way for limiting the use of specific client "agent" not the internet per se.

in theory squidguard may give such an option though I really doubt that
 - this is not what proxy server is intended for - in theory they should not check user agent though there are provisions for controlling the content requested.

best uninstall ie from all the windows systems...
or password protect proxy options for ie so they point to /dev/nul so ie can not get anything.
or just encrypt some dll's.

Title: Re: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: Derek on December 18, 2003, 04:44:11 PM

http://www.winguardpro.com/

Title: Re: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: Finchwizard on December 18, 2003, 10:50:48 PM

If though you uninsall IE from Windows. It's still there, it's still practically buil into the OS.....

All the need to do is go into My Computer and type a address in, and it turns itself into IE.

We use a program called "Fortress 101"

Best program I've ever seen for Windows Clien Security.

You can stop anything and everyhing, allow certain things to run. Can actually do basic webpage filtering....restricts users from doing anything like modified files....

We have it here so they can't write anything to the computer, has to be their network drive.....apart from temp and things....

Very good program, wasn't that expensive either....as far as those packages go's....

Depending on the size of the network your running.

Title: Re: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: Arne on December 19, 2003, 03:35:45 AM

I think such a program they use on web cafes does this. I have no idea if this web cafe program is a good one, but at least it seems to be free for up to 5 clients:

http://www.antamedia.com/caffe/index.htm

Title: Re: Limiting IE use on LAN
Post by: Michael Smith on December 24, 2003, 05:03:41 AM

Don't like IE?  IERadicate it!

http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html

I just used this to take a failed 5.5-to-6.0 "upgrade" off a WinME (ugh) machine and do a fresh 6.0 install ... it worked fantastically.