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Thursday, September 24, AM. Thanks all for the help. I think the first step is to remove user from admin group. Marked as answer by aalmurar Monday, September 28, AM. My friend has a father who was stung by scammers so he is now looking to lock down his fathers Win 10 pro laptop to stop him installing software other than what he has already installed and preventing popups and the like when he is browsing. I mentioned he could implement a local group policy to restrict his father from installing any extra software but from my own experience, this isn't fool proof.
As I understand it, even when a policy has been put in place to block an install, a user can still install software if it only applies to their profile and not all users. So essentially I am looking for advice here for how someone running Win 10 Pro could really lock the hell out of a machine and just let a select few apps be run and no further apps installed.
One option I thought about was App Locker which only runs on Enterprise or Education as far as I know, I guess he could purchase a copy of that. Does anyone know how effective applocker is?
He is father wouldnt actively try to breach it but he is extremely gullible to answering phone calls and doing what he is told for instance when tricked on the phone by someone pushing a "deal of a lifetime", hence got stung for a lot of money recently. So in an essence we need the machine to be fort knox, we would want to block remote access sites like log me in rescue or similar getting into the machine as well.
Any advice would be appreciated, its a shame he has to go to these lengths to protect his father but I guess old age catches up to us all.
Swap it out with a Chromebook, especially if all he is doing is reading email and browsing Facebook or similar activities. The most effective solution would be to remove his local administrator rights.
Create another user with admin rights. Take his users rights away. Then if he want to install some legit software his son can do it with the admin credentials. But doesn't the same thing apply if he tries to install an app that applies only to his user profile then it will allow it?
Users at work do not have the ability to install software as we denied it with group policy but every now and again someone still installs something as it applies only to their user profile and is therefore allowed.
Yeah I hear you about the grandma, accept he was scammed for a fair bit of money instead with amazing "investments". We do this at work and it ensures only an admin can then install software as only admins can modify program files.
Also most malicious software that takes control of your PC needs admin access to be successful not just ran in a users security context. An exception to this would be crypto ware that encrypts files. But again if ran in a users context without admin rights it could only encrypt files that user had access to.
A good antivirus would stop this such as Sophos Central with IntetceptX. I'm going to disagree here, many browser exploits or malicious email links do not need admin rights to run, they use exploits and scripts to execute bypass techniques in already vulnerable systems - and given most home users don't patch because they dont know how, Microsoft force it for 'Home' editions of Windows, since this person has 'pro' then the management of patches is on them.
Why else would AppLocker and SRPs need to be put in place in businesses, many companies don't give users admin rights to help reduce the risk, but this in itself does not negate them clicking a 'PDF' link to a fake Office update that executes a piece of code to exploit a vulnerability in something like OLE objects, Flash or Java, to name just a handful of applications.
Most of these way's in are also not detectable by AV or malware scanners as they are neither, it's only after the fact they are issues and at that point it's typically too late. Remove admin rights, whitelist SRP whitelist is key here.
As long as you have Pro you can use local policy. You absolutely can install to your profile without admin.
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