Tag: EXECUTABLES

While I'm sure you're responsible with the programs you run on your computer, what about the other people you work and live with? If you're an administrator or share your computer with anyone else, you might want to check out Trust-No-Exe. What does it do? It installs as a service and can block any executable process: exe, dll, sys, com, etc. Set up allow and deny folders, start the service, and ...

A minor peeve of mine is the way Firefox tries to protect you from yourself, i.e. not letting you choose the "Open With" option when downloading certain files, and instead making you save it to your hard drive first. Usually this only applies to executable files, but Firefox's definition of executable is pretty broad, so sometimes this restriction kicks in even when opening, say, JavaScript files. ...