How to block .bat and .exe files

[z4ydi]

students are typing command.com into a notepad and save it as .bat and accessing the command prompt, how can i stop this, is it possible to do it through AD I tried to find where in AD but no joy, please give me a solutions

thanks

[Jake]

We've had a sudden spate of kids doing this in the last month or so, havent had it happen before, then suddenly everyone is making command bat files. Must be something going round.

We used software restrictions in the group policy to stop them being able to actually run the bat files, but the little tykes still make them in the hope they will work

[Ryan]

Haven't dabbled with this, but probably should. I'll go ask Google for more details unless anyone wants to weigh in with any tips/advice on setting up Software Restrictions in GP?

[ZeroHour]

Try a search on the security forum and you should find some tips Ryan

Cheers

[iatkinson]

We've had a sudden spate of kids doing this in the last month or so, havent had it happen before, then suddenly everyone is making command bat files. Must be something going round.

We used software restrictions in the group policy to stop them being able to actually run the bat files, but the little tykes still make them in the hope they will work

Likewise we do this, the odd kid still creates them but we have sophos set to delete them when it scans their area as well.

[rrichmond]

I think you may find my post useful.


Stopping .EXE, .CMD and .BAT files

Plus its free and works well. We use it at our school.

[Ryan]

thanks lads