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I’m not a windows guy, so this is an honest question: is your tone sarcastic?
by barbecue_sauce 6y ago
I’m not a windows guy, so this is an honest question: is your tone sarcastic?
- blindm 6y agoNo. I'm not trying to be sarcastic. Autoruns (seriously) has helped me stop so much malware from running. I'm a Windows sysadmin for my sins, and find the whole Sysinternals suite invaluable and super necessary for my job.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoIf your users can run malware, erm, what kind of permissions are you giving them? Hate to say it but a sysadmin's job is sometimes to say no.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoI'm fine if you down vote me but what exactly is wrong with my suggestion that preventing users running malware is exactly what the sysadmin's job is, and sysadmins have exactly the tools, authority and need to do it. Where did I get it wrong?
- rkagerer 6y agoI expect it's sincere but with a hint of sardonic edge that such a simple and widespread tool found its way into the guidance issued by nation state level intelligence agencies. Kind of like if NASA issued workmanship standards for the ISS and mentioned the utility of a hammer.
- blindm 6y agoYes I am overlooking a /lot/ of the PDF which has other useful info on thwarting malware (and a lot of it is very interesting and I might incorporate into my toolbelt), not just the "hammer" of Autoruns lol
- kube-system 6y agoLots of government agencies post best-practices for simple stuff. Getting the basics right is important, both for government agencies and the general public. NASA publications aren't all cutting edge space technology either: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/telescopes/en/ https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/telescopes/en/