[Bad.boy!]

I have a question, imagine some kind of bussiness network. All the computers are logged into a domain (all win xp), and a non admin user managed to install something like a different browser on the local hard drive on a computer. Could it do any harm to the network. All settings of users are safed on the network btw.

[Wolf68k]

The browser itself? No.
It depends on what all settings are on the network too. But for the most part no. Just make sure the system and software are up to date.


BTW this is "Micro$oft Tuesday"....ie Windows Updates

[leik oh em jeez!]

QUOTE (Bad.boy! @ Tuesday, Jun 12 2012, 14:08)

I have a question, imagine some kind of bussiness network. All the computers are logged into a domain (all win xp), and a non admin user managed to install something like a different browser on the local hard drive on a computer. Could it do any harm to the network. All settings of users are safed on the network btw.

Nope. I used to install sh*t on school computers all the time. I had to listen to a few lectures from the network admin, and even had a nice meeting with one of the county's network admins. At least I never got caught logging in with one of the county network admin's accounts.

But you should be fine. The browser itself wont screw anything up. Though if access to the hard drives is restricted, you can view the files through FireFox. I've also found that with Novell, if you unplug your network cable right as the login window disappears, you'll be logged on as a local administrator, granting you access to the hard drive, and a nice little network messenger.

I quickly learned how to take the network cable out and back in without getting up or moving the computer.

[Bad.boy!]

QUOTE (leik oh em jeez! @ Wednesday, Jun 13 2012, 21:31)

QUOTE (Bad.boy! @ Tuesday, Jun 12 2012, 14:08) I have a question, imagine some kind of bussiness network. All the computers are logged into a domain (all win xp), and a non admin user managed to install something like a different browser on the local hard drive on a computer. Could it do any harm to the network. All settings of users are safed on the network btw. Nope. I used to install sh*t on school computers all the time. I had to listen to a few lectures from the network admin, and even had a nice meeting with one of the county's network admins. At least I never got caught logging in with one of the county network admin's accounts. But you should be fine. The browser itself wont screw anything up. Though if access to the hard drives is restricted, you can view the files through FireFox. I've also found that with Novell, if you unplug your network cable right as the login window disappears, you'll be logged on as a local administrator, granting you access to the hard drive, and a nice little network messenger. I quickly learned how to take the network cable out and back in without getting up or moving the computer.

You did the same as I did

My school uses ie7 and the pc's are sh*t. So I installed a new browser, about 2 months ago. Now 2 months later, I'm in problem with the guy that controls everything (threats the pc's as if they were his baby's) and is totally pissed. I also got a speech of the network admin. I won't mind an hour detention, but this guy is trying to get me suspended and make me pay for "damage" and administrational costs. He can go f*ck himself I won't pay sh*t.

[leik oh em jeez!]

Tell him from one network admin to another, I know installing a browser on a computer's local hard drive will not only NOT do any damage to the computer or network, but there's also no specific school rule which prevents you from doing so. The software was provided by a legitimate source, and is known to work with the current system configuration. And that IF a problem was to arise, the only action that would need to be taken to reverse it is to uninstall the application.

Print this out and hand it to him if you want.

[illegal_luggage]

I could understand the admins grief if you were installing games and such but a browser if nothing to get angry about. Maybe they want to save local HDD space but a browser such as Chrome uses up 266MB which is hardly anything even if the machine only has a 60GB drive.
Your admin should see our college computer domain as their is so much crap on the machines. There's usually about five different browsers, three anti-viruses running, loads of cracked games installed and other crap which all runs at startup. This is what happens when students are given admin rights
At school I got into a bit of trouble as I found an exploit in Windows 7 which would let me change the desktop and login screen. I didn't have the rights to access important C: drive folders but right clicking on a file and then choosing "open with" and then "browse". I would be in the program files folder and would click on the address bar, copy the text and paste it in a shortcut (creating a shortcut was also disabled but one could be made in the desktop folder). I changed the text at the bottom of the login screen to "Users who have forgotten their password will be shot on site" and another example was "If your password contains the word "password" or has "123" at the end of it, you will be kicked in the nuts". Good times

[leik oh em jeez!]

QUOTE (illegal_luggage @ Wednesday, Jun 13 2012, 16:32)

I could understand the admins grief if you were installing games and such but a browser if nothing to get angry about. Maybe they want to save local HDD space but a browser such as Chrome uses up 266MB which is hardly anything even if the machine only has a 60GB drive.

If it's anything like our computers, they had Windows XP, FireFox, Office, and Novell installed. Everything else was run off of the network and none of the students had access to the 80Gb hard drives with about 60Gb free space.

QUOTE

Windows 7

You must be a youngin.

[illegal_luggage]

QUOTE (leik oh em jeez! @ Wednesday, Jun 13 2012, 21:36)

QUOTE Windows 7 You must be a youngin.

Using Windows 7 makes me young one? In my final year of School they went from XP to 7.

This post has been edited by illegal_luggage on Wednesday, Jun 13 2012, 22:01

[Wolf68k]

Unless those computers are running XP SP1 they need to be updated to IE8 at the very least. IE8 requires XP SP2.
If you can plugin a USB stick, you can try running a portable version of Firefox or Chrome. Nothing is written to the HDD it's all contained on the USB stick.

[Stinky12]

Those so call admins are nothing but a bunch of turds. They like to use their "admin" status to get on top of others and while they do know networking, but when it comes to basic computing, they don't know sh*t.
A computer technician will know more than some stupid admin.
It's really idiotic for the admin to go insane when someone installs a browser, just uninstall it or if they are smart enough, they can invest in some restore program that automatically sets the entire system back to defaults, when the machine reboots.
There was a free program from MS that did just that, called Steady State.

[Bad.boy!]

The guy that is pissed isn't even an admin, he just "guards" the computers. Our school computers are heavily protected because a couple of years ago you could basically do almost everything and some people started wrecking computers. Nowadays the school can watch everything you do. And at the start of the school year they updated frome ie6 to ie7 (don't know why they didn't update to ie9).

I could have done it better, if I had removed the browser when I was finished they probably never noticed. A usb will be better to use next time.

No one takes this serious my mentor doesn't really understand it I think, my friends make jokes like you should have installed chrome instead, and after 2 days I still haven't heard anything about it. Maybe he developed some common sense.

Oftopic, this one is right:


This post has been edited by Bad.boy! on Thursday, Jun 14 2012, 19:57

[Wolf68k]

Wait. The beginning of the school year they updated from IE6 to It7, you said? This year?!?! Even if it was last year, 2011, that admin needs to be fired for having his head up his ass.
Long before MS officially stopped supporting IE6 they were telling people to stop using it. Microsoft wants people to stop using IE6 so badly they created a website for it at the beginning of 2011; http://www.ie6countdown.com/

Now if those computers are using XP I can understand why they haven't updated to 9, because they can't, IE8 is the last to support XP.