Re: IE Malware / Spyware Control Methods

[harley mcdonald <harleyqmcdonald () yahoo com>]

i use a combo of all these ideas.   sucks...but what
are you going to do.   trying that beta winders
anti-spyware.

anyone konw anything about that?

'bout time MS

..
--- Gary Baribault <gary () baribault net> wrote:

> The first obvious answer is to follow many people's
> lead and go with
> Firefox. I have replaced IE on many customer's
> installations. 
>
> The next solution or in combination with the first
> is to create Ghost
> images and just ghost people's machines when their
> beyond repair.
>
> Gary B
>
>
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 12:37 -0500, Illuminatus
> Master wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >  I'm sure you all realize the growing threat of
> malware and spyware to
> > Internet Explorer. It has been my experience that
> the initial
> > infection and/or removel of an infection by
> anti-spyware products can
> > permanently damage a windows workstation. This
> damage occurs in many
> > forms and often leads too the workstation being
> reformatted and
> > rebuilt before going back into service.
> >
> > A recent example is earlier this week, in spite of
> content filtering,
> > a workstation was infected with "wintools",
> "mysearchtoolbar" etc. The
> > tough part of this is that such malware has
> multiple instances/threads
> > and renames system files like msconfig to resist
> removal. Often
> > IE/Windows is so damaged it's more time effiecient
> to just replace the
> > box and rebuild the infected one.
> >
> > My question is this, I'm batting around the idea
> of using Group Policy
> > in our Active Directory to  try and choke IE down
> to the point where
> > such Malware has trouble installing itself. Has
> anyone here ever tried
> > such as this with any degree of success?
> >
> > Other than Group Policy I'm also considering
> deploying an alternate
> > web browser that isnt subject to malware infection
> but doing so
> > complicates my patching/reporting routine for our
> security audits.
> > I look forward to your comments and idea's.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > massa



                
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