Advice Request Password protected settings

[Scirious]

Hi there!

Is there a way to password protect the settings from being changed and the protection from being disabled?

Thanks a lot,

- Scirious

 

[Pixelman]

I think you have to specify the settings for what exactly?
The more details you provide the better and easier for someone to help you will be.

 

[Scirious]

Well, I mean, if I install F-Secure in my daughters laptop and knowing she has administrators right for her account, how can I prevent her from changing F-Secure's settings ou disabling the protection. I mean, Comodo, Kaspersky, ESET and others have the ability to add a password that is requested every time I try to access the settings interface or if I try to disable the protection. How can the same be acomplished with F-Secure?

 

[Pixelman]

Well, I mean, if I install F-Secure in my daughters laptop and knowing she has administrators right for her account, how can I prevent her from changing F-Secure's settings ou disabling the protection. I mean, Comodo, Kaspersky, ESET and others have the ability to add a password that is requested every time I try to access the settings interface or if I try to disable the protection. How can the same be acomplished with F-Secure?

I don't use F-Secure so I don't know. Maybe @Shadowra can help. She recently did a F-Secure test video.

 

[show-Zi]

I think you can use the means to apply and manage child accounts from My F-Secure.

 

[Scirious]

I think you can use the means to apply and manage child accounts from My F-Secure.

Sorry! I didn't understand what you meant to say.

 

[show-Zi]

Sorry! I didn't understand what you meant to say.

What is My F-Secure? - F-Secure Community

What is My F-Secure? My F-Secure is the home of your protection. It is the management portal for all the devices that are protected under your F-Secure SAFE or F-Secure TOTAL subscription, and the place where you can start protecting your various devices. Through My F-Secure you can: * Protect...

community.f-secure.com

F-Secure User Guides

Guides and manuals for your F-Secure products

help.f-secure.com

Although it is written for an older version, there is not much difference in concept.

 

[Scirious]

Oh, I see! However, it seems to not be capable of preventing her from disabling the protection, nor someone else I let use my computer.

 

[upnorth]

Oh, I see! However, it seems to not be capable of preventing her from disabling the protection, nor someone else I let use my computer.

If that's your goal, why do you allow her or anyone else with administration access?

 

[Scirious]

If that's your goal, why do you allow her or anyone else with administration access?

I don't live with her, so she needs to manage her own computer in case she needs to do something while I can't help. Also, I normally don't let people use my computer, but there may be some cases where my girlfriend has to access my computer and she will do it from my account.

 

[Mystic]

I believe even if you install F-Secure on your daughter's device as "child", you still will not be able to protect settings using a password. You can either let her use a local non-admin account, but this would be very inconvenient as she would have to reach you everytime she needs admin privillages, or you should go for another security suite that allow you to password protect the settings.

---

Here is a list of security suites that allow password protection of their settings:

1- AVG & Avast
2- Kaspersky
3- Malwarebytes
4- GData
5- Eset

Those are the prdouct I can recall for now.

 

[upnorth]

The problem with password protected settings is that with a local administration account, it's dead easy to boot in SafeMode edit a little reg entry from 1 to 0, reboot the machine and it's Game Over. I know that's the case with at least 1 of those extra mentioned AVs in this thread. That's one reason why I prefer SUA ( standard user account ).

 

[Mystic]

The problem with password protected settings is that with a local administration account, it's dead easy to boot in SafeMode edit a little reg entry from 1 to 0, reboot the machine and it's Game Over. I know that's the case with at least 1 of those extra mentioned AVs in this thread. That's one reason why I prefer SUA ( standard user account ).

You're right, but most ordinary users do not posses the know-how to boot into safe mode and manipulate the registry. Moreover, they won't even bother to open the antivirus.

I'm using AVG on all of my family devices and I enabled password protection to protect the settings. This is great especially if AVG stops an infection and users want to disable protection.

 

[upnorth]

most ordinary users do not posses the know-how to boot into safe mode and manipulate the registry. Moreover, they won't even bother to open the antivirus.

Your missing the point the OP asking about:

how can I prevent her from changing F-Secure's settings ou disabling the protection.

You can not change F-Secures settings without open the Antivirus UI ( user interface ), and you can not disable it's protection elsewhere because of a self-protection feature called " Tamper Protection ". Unless one uninstall the whole AV from the admin account, but that is normally obvious in a administration account. Tamper Protection or any other of SAFE settings requires access inside the UI and without a administration account, one is forced to use a password if the admin account actually is password protected to begin with.

This screenshots is from a administration account and one has to click " Edit settings ".

Spoiler

Also, it takes around 30 seconds to find that bypass ( along with how to start into safe mode ) I mentioned with a simple Google search and kids nowadays are silly fast with Google.