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Re:Lockdown.exe: Block unknown apps via Windows software res... by jve on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:55AM (#27446476)
I opened up the article by just hoping to find this one thing: I simply would like to whitelist already installed programs and block everything else, ideally without configuring anything.

That would really simplify things

Re:Lockdown.exe: Block unknown apps via Windows software res... by FoolishTech on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:40AM (#27449202)
by default %programfiles% and %programfiles(x86)% are whitelisted, so for most users pretty much that's exactly what they will do with Lockdown, launch it click Enable and that is all that needs to be done. Granted you do need to worry about specifically whitelisting programs not installed to those locations, which are few if any for most people, and actually it wouldn't be a bad feature idea to add an automatic scan for them since some apps insist on running from nested %appdata% folders...
Re:Lockdown.exe: Block unknown apps via Windows software res... by GaveDrohl on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:12PM (#27486773)
What stops someone from installing a virus to those locations so that they're automatically whitelisted?