Portable Apps

Anybody come across "Portable Apps" (portableapps.com). It seems that you can run these apps from a USB device and they don't leave any trace on the machine. You can run for example Firefox with all your own bookmarks. There are quite a few apps available even now (including a full OpenOffice.org, NVU, Filezilla, Thunderbird, Gaim....), with more on the way - including "operating systems" according to the info on the site. What are the implications for "secure" networks? My nephew apparently uses them all the time at school.

I believe there is a new standard being defined for this sort of thing. Some USB keys are already available and certified to this standard, but the name of it escapes me...

.... and these are the reason you need to make sure you prevent Exe files etc being able to run from such devices.

Indeed. Software Restriction Policies are your friend in this case.

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.... and these are the reason you need to make sure you prevent Exe files etc being able to run from such devices.

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Give us a quick example how you would stop this happening Chris.

I guess i know he answer but i want to check i am doing the same as others?

Well, I'd set up a software restriction policy which only allows you to run applications in the Program Files or other approved directories.