On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:
Ben Coman wrote
Unfortunately due to IT lock down I cannot use Pharo at work,
Not even off a jump drive?
Nope. You prompted me to try once again ==> This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator. Even renaming pharo.exe to notepad.exe doesn't work. It seems they are using signature based white-listing[1].
From an Ops security perspective I applaud such policy. First place I've seen it used. Its the only real protection. Much better than a virus scanner which only maybePossibly notices based on heuristics observing behaviour after the malware is already running. From a practical/user perspective, uurgh,aarggh!
[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/create-an-application-whitelist-p... cheers -ben