How to block or prevent malware from running

Simple solutions for blocking malwares in Windows

I've been talking about manual malware removal in most of my blog, now we talk about prevention.  As the saying goes, "a byte of prevention better than a megabyte of cure."  This technique is not limited to blocking wscript.exe, which we will be discussing later, but to any application as long as you know the file name.  I've been using this procedure way back in 2009 to remove any unknown malware.

For starters, we use what's built in with Windows (I'll discuss 3rd party apps later) using Group Po;icy Editor, some registry tweaks and using a small VBS file to terminate all running scripts a few seconds after Windows startup.

I.  Group Policy Editor

• Launch gpedit.msc
• Go to User Configuration | Administrative Templates | System and double click on Don't run selected Windows applications

•  Enable and click on Show... button

• Click Add...

• Type the filename of the application you want to block, wscript.exe in our example and click OK

• Wscript.exe is now added to our list.  Click OK

• Click OK

• Exit gpedit.msc

Now let's test if our restriction works by running a vbs file.

That's is. Now you can easily remove any worm in your system by doing a full scan with an updated antivirus.

How to block or prevent malware from running Part 2

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