Re: vista pia

Hi Paul,

I have always install all my application in the following folders:

X:\MyCompanyName\MyApplicationName

Where X: could be any drive in the computer. I have never had any problem with that schema, no even virus or malware and since I have several applications, it make it very easy for the customer to just backup all folders within my CompanyName folder, and I do have several applications running on Vista.

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"Paul Pedersen" <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23V1rO1dNIHA.3940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Among those ways, is there one that will allow a fast and silent upgrade to
several users at once, like I had before?


Suppose I turn the app that gets downloaded from the file server into an app
instead of an exe. Will that solve the security problem?




"Craig Berntson" <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It opens a potential security hole where malware could attach itself to
> your EXE.
>
> There are ways to work with the Vista security model that, IMO, should be
> followed.
>
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> Craig Berntson
> Microsoft MVP
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> "Paul Pedersen" <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Like many other developers of multi-user applications, I often use an
>> application upgrade model in which an updated version of the app is
>> downloaded from the file server. Makes it very easy to upgrade several
>> users. Mostly, they don't even know it happened.
>>
>> Now MS in its wisdom, has broken that method, and starting with Vista we
>> can no longer write anything to Program Files. (I don't like that change
>> at all, but they didn't ask for my opinion.)
>>
>> What's wrong with installing my app outside of Program Files, say in its
>> own directory under the root directory? Offhand, it sounds to me like a
>> simple and workable solution. After all, there are already some
>> commercial apps that do that, stay away from Program Files altogether.
>>
>> Is that a bad idea? What could go wrong?
>>
>>
>

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