Are USB pen drive "required"?
Make a policy for them (if you use policies), or glue the USB ports shut.
(Or seal them with a tamper proof seal that is easy to see/inspect...)

There are likely many other ways to handle this, but a security related
list might be a better bet... (I don't knowof any...)

                                                      Rick Glazier

From: "Frederick Navarro" about: Application Blocker


> Hi everyone.  I would like to ask, is there any application available which
> could block application names?  My problem is with our computer laboratory
> in our school, the students usually play hacked games like starcraft and
> warcraft from their usb pen drives. But as strict as we wanted it to be
> implemented, there is a saying that goes, "When the cat is away, the mouse
> will play".
> 
> I'm looking for a way wherein the computer will only have a list of
> allowable applications which could run, and if the students will try to run
> an application outside the list, it will be blocked.  Do we have one
> available in the market?  I have a script here but its using a batch file
> (.bat) which has to run every 10 minutes and its job is to delete any
> suspicous application for games, etc but the cunning students will just
> rename the filename so it won't be deleted.
> 
> Our computers are running on WinXP SP2, 256 RAM.  Any help would be
> appreciated, thanks!!!

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