Re: Ban folder names?

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"Alastairg100" <alastairg100@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> For a couple of times now I have somehow downloaded a SpyWare software.
> Everyone knows these are annoying and however hard you try always a couple
> will get through. Luckely I know everything which is on my PC so I noticed
> when a folder called Temp in the C Drive. Usually also with this you get a
> Bulls Eye Network thing aswell in the Program Files. Is it possible in
> simple
> steps please to stop a folder being created with a certain name. So next
> time
> I download this SpyWare an error will come up saying that it can't install
> because I have blocked the use of that folder name. Is this possible?

This was most likely created when a program was recently installed.
Most programs need to be extracted / save temporary files, and they'll
do this in wherever the temporary files folder has been set.
This could be c:\temp, c:\tmp, f:\foo - you'll find it if you
go to the properties of My Computer > Advanced and
Environment variables (in XP).
However, some programs simply must use c:\temp - usually because the
programmer was a lazy sonofa--[1] and specified a folder to use during
install.

The bottom line is that if a program forcs use of c:\temp, there's not much
you
can do about it. The only thing you could do would be to stop access to the
temp folder using permissions, but that wouldn't stop it being created in
the
first place. Unless I am mistaken, the only way to stop temp from being
created by install programs would be to deny access to the C:\ area. This
does have the unfortunate problem of stopping windows from working as well,
which may be more of a problem than the temp folder existing.

[1] I won't finish that because I've been guilty of this :-)

Hope this is of some use,

--
Thingy.


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