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How do you prevent access to the 'calculator' interface on a particular OS (say Windows). We would want to avoid usage of calculators while taking an online quiz at the site. Is this even possible?
If you're talking about through a purely web interface, then no. In order to do this, you would have to be able to monitor running processes, which is something a web app can't do. It would be too big a security risk.
If you control the machines (they're on your network, in a classroom where you can load and restrict the software, etc), you could write a program to monitor and shut down the processes. For example, a .NET application could use the System.Diagnostocs.Process object to monitor for instances of calc.exe.
A standard executable could do it, but not a web app.
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There may be other alternatives if you control the PCs in question. Most corporate IT shops use some sort of monitoring software that will detect the use of "Unauthorized" programs. (I got busted for launching Solitaire once.) That would be more of a question for ServerFault.com, however.
Do you think it would be a good idea if websites were able to stop executable running on remote computers? Think about this seriously for a second, the security/privacy implications this would have.
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So I was on my way to turn off my computer when unexpectedly, in the screen where you see the programs that block Windows to turn off, i saw one process with a strange name like {4593-9493-8949-9390} (not the exact same name but similar) and before i could click on the cancel button the process close.
My question here is if I should be wondering about that strange process or its just some random Windows 10 routine
This very well could be a malware of sort being executed in the background. I would recommend scanning your computer with your preferred anti-virus program and then installing Process Monitor which should help you detect and analyze suspicious processes running on your computer:
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more. Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit.
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I am trying to play some online games on the school computers.
Although everytime i try to run exes of setups such as Hearthstone-Setup-enUS.exe i get the User Account Control blocking me from installing applications.
I undersrand that installing pirated software on the school computers is ilegal but I just want to play free online games.
Is there a way to bypass the UAC?
School's Computer run Windows 7
In my experience, no. Whenever a UAC prompt is there you can't run it without administrator rights.
You can however try installing it into a flash drive (at home) and if you are lucky enough the game itself might run off of that. UAC blocks most installers, but it doesn't touch quite a lot of actual applications.
HOWEVER, schools tend to have common online game ports blocked, and there's a good chance that even if your game launches it wont connect.
Just install the game on any external storage such as USB and play from it .
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I'm looking for a cloud solution that allows me to deploy a Linux virtual host remotely, and use it for security testing (ie port scanning, etc). When not in use, maybe have it act as a honeypot. I really like AMAZON's pay what you use approach. Has anyone here used AMAZON's services in a similar fashion?
Any suggestions??
I haven't but my comment on the Amazon services is that they can rack up costs very quickly and it is hard to control the costs as there are too many variables.
Unless you need high resilience, I would recommend simply using a VPS.
Also make sure that, whoever you use, you carefully check the terms and conditions as most providers will not be happy about you doing port scanning from their service.
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I need to modify the way the wireless access point handle its authentication method.
Is it possible to change the behaviour of wireless access point a little bit?
If so, by using what library? On what operating system?
This depends on various things, the first being whether your router can utilize custom firmware.
Some routers like the Linksys WRT54G (pre V4 or the GL version) use a Linux based firmware that allow you to do alot more with the routers hardware.
There are some custom distributions for these devices like DD-WRT, however OpenWRT might be the best place to start if you're comfortable with Linux.
I would start by looking if your router is listed as being supported on the above sites
Unfortuanetly there isn't one specific library that I know of that will help you here, you might have to reimplement part of the security logic in these small distros and recompile them to achieve what you want
Are you using the default firmware on your access point? If so, you may find that there are many more configuration options availible, including more authentication options on third-party (free) software such as Tomato and DD-WRT.
If you want a quick start, this may solve your problem:
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As part of our product we use 3rd party hardware and drivers. Unfortunately, these drivers aren't signed so up pops the "Found new hardware wizard" when installing or upgrading our product. Our product is web based and allows the users access to everything they need remotely, apart from this one case.
Is there a registry hack or other OS setting that will stop the wizard appearing?
Can we sign the drivers ourselves?
Could we write a program that would click "Next, Next, Next" on the wizard that will work on all language variants of Windows?
There is 2 ways to get silent installation:
1) Sign the driver and that can be hard/impossible if you don't have the driver source code.
2) You can write a co-installer dll using this api's. The problem that this is not reliable and from our experience there is a lot of workarounds for different Windows flavors.
The only 100% reliable option will be option one.