Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Victor M" data-source="post: 1018041" data-attributes="member: 96560">I have been using Faronics Anti-Executable for a couple of months on my Win 11 box.It has very few settings. Enabled, Disabled and Maintenance Mode. In order to do Windows Update, you have to wait till all the updates are downloaded and installed, as per Settings &gt; Windows Update, then go into your admin account and set FAE to maintenance mode. Then reboot and let Windows update itself. If you don&#039;t set it to maintenance mode, the update will fail. Then after the reboot is complete, go and turn FAE back to enabled. On my i5-4th generation cpu, you have to wait 15 mins for FAE to turn back on to Enabled mode. I think it is checking to see what files are updated.One thing I was uncertain about is whether exiting maintenance mode will mark malware as whitelisted. But it seems that it still selectively pops up and asks you about each uncommonly accessed exe. So I am probably worrying about nothing.You can go to Execution Control List tab to view all the whitelisted exe&#039;s, dll&#039;s vbscripts and powershell scripts.&nbsp; It takes about 5&nbsp; mins to load up, because the list contains everything in your machine. There you can reverse your decisions to ban a certain app.You can password protect FAE to protect it&#039;s settings. And a standard user account cannot get to the main menu at all. A standard user account also does not have the ability to OK the execution of any pop up items, you can only acknowledge the pop up. And if you delete your admin account, you won&#039;t be able get to back into the program.There is a temporary execution mode, but I am not sure what that does so I never used it.All in all, it is a decent program, but it is a bit slow on my old machine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Victor M, post: 1018041, member: 96560"] I have been using Faronics Anti-Executable for a couple of months on my Win 11 box. It has very few settings. Enabled, Disabled and Maintenance Mode. In order to do Windows Update, you have to wait till all the updates are downloaded and installed, as per Settings > Windows Update, then go into your admin account and set FAE to maintenance mode. Then reboot and let Windows update itself. If you don't set it to maintenance mode, the update will fail. Then after the reboot is complete, go and turn FAE back to enabled. On my i5-4th generation cpu, you have to wait 15 mins for FAE to turn back on to Enabled mode. I think it is checking to see what files are updated. One thing I was uncertain about is whether exiting maintenance mode will mark malware as whitelisted. But it seems that it still selectively pops up and asks you about each uncommonly accessed exe. So I am probably worrying about nothing. You can go to Execution Control List tab to view all the whitelisted exe's, dll's vbscripts and powershell scripts. It takes about 5 mins to load up, because the list contains everything in your machine. There you can reverse your decisions to ban a certain app. You can password protect FAE to protect it's settings. And a standard user account cannot get to the main menu at all. A standard user account also does not have the ability to OK the execution of any pop up items, you can only acknowledge the pop up. And if you delete your admin account, you won't be able get to back into the program. There is a temporary execution mode, but I am not sure what that does so I never used it. All in all, it is a decent program, but it is a bit slow on my old machine. [/QUOTE]

Verification