Hey guys.
I'm trying to restrict apps to a predefined whitelist in an effort to protect mom from herself without a clunky AV bogging down performance in the background.
What I found about the above linked approach using gpedit is that it simply identifies applications by name, instead of by file path. This seems incredibly silly to me, since malware can very easily sneak in provided it's named after a legit app, say, Notepad.exe.
Is there a more secure way to do this? Preferably, I'd like to avoid commercial solutions.
Thanks!
I'm trying to restrict apps to a predefined whitelist in an effort to protect mom from herself without a clunky AV bogging down performance in the background.
What I found about the above linked approach using gpedit is that it simply identifies applications by name, instead of by file path. This seems incredibly silly to me, since malware can very easily sneak in provided it's named after a legit app, say, Notepad.exe.
Is there a more secure way to do this? Preferably, I'd like to avoid commercial solutions.
Thanks!
