Preventing Firefox Installation

July 24, 2007

I am an admin at a college with a Windows 2003 Server and a Windows 2000

Server.

I need to make it possible so that the students cannot install Firefox. I

don't want to turn off downloads completly.

Thanks,

Jeffrey

July 24, 2007

Re: Preventing Firefox Installation

"Jeffrey Alan Felburg" <jfelburg@vcccd.edu> wrote in message

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>I am an admin at a college with a Windows 2003 Server and a Windows 2000

>Server.

>

> I need to make it possible so that the students cannot install Firefox. I

> don't want to turn off downloads completly.

>

> Thanks,

> Jeffrey

You could use software restriction policies to stop it running. For example

you could take a hash of the various firefox installation programs and also

the firefox executable and the restrict it from running. You would have to

do this with each new version though. You can also restrict the path firefox

usually installs in but they could just change the path.

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