preventing pear to pear software installs

[DaveP]

Hi,

I have been asked to do a foreigner for somebodies home PC.
Not seen it yet, but have been told kids use it for downloading music.
therefore I expect it to have bearshare, limewire, etc etc installed on it.
once I have cleaned it up & removed these apps is there a way to prevent them from being reinstalled ?

PC likely to be running XP home sp2

[KevinS]

Create a limited user account for each child.. Installing software normally required admin privileges.. The downer would be if they use uTorrent, which can be run from a USB drive, and requires no installation..

If they have a router for their broadband, there is always the option of preventing P2P protocols (depending on the router)..

[MrRobin]

Hmm... don't think you could stop the install of the software without setting up a different user accounts for the kids and revoking admin rights.

May be a way to block the ports that P2P typically uses tho.. but this wouldn't actually prevent the install of the malware that is usually bundled with kazaa et al.

Failing that, give them a lesson in torrenting. If you can't be good, be safe

[MrRobin]

Oh, by the way:

peer

It's not some kind of fruit market

[DaveB]

Ah.

Thanks for that, I thought it was peir to peir...

Pier

[BrilloPad]

Hi,

I have been asked to do a foreigner for somebodies home PC.
Not seen it yet, but have been told kids use it for downloading music.
therefore I expect it to have bearshare, limewire, etc etc installed on it.
once I have cleaned it up & removed these apps is there a way to prevent them from being reinstalled ?

PC likely to be running XP home sp2

keep the children in the shed

thats what I do anyway.

[Xenophon]

Funniest thread title in Technical. Ever.

[Ardesco]

preventing pear to pear software installs

Very easy, just remove your PEAR installation dir from the include_path directive in your php.ini (e.g. c:\php\pear).

This way even if they manage to download some PEAR packages they will not work. Just make sure they don't have access to the PHP.ini, if they do they can easily re-enable PEAR again.

HTH

[TheFaQQer]

Funniest thread title in Technical. Ever.

Almost worth coming back for.....

[NickFitz]

Pier

peer

This could go on for some time...