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Blocking EXE downloads

Big al · 2004-01-13 09:58:42

Any ideas how i would stop someone downloading exe's onto their PC, Its Win2K

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13-01-2004 10:58am

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Big al

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Any ideas how i would stop someone downloading exe's onto their PC, Its Win2K

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#2 13-01-2004 11:01am
Jaden

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I do that. I have a Linux Proxy sunning Squid, and use a REGEX -I .exe ACL to stop them doing that. Of course, it won't stop ZIP files, but you can always add a ZIP ACL for that too.....

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#3 13-01-2004 5:27pm
Xterminator

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Block it at the proxy server.

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