The Vista LX is one of the most affordable and luxurious motorhomes in its class. Stop in and check out our complete selection of Winnebago motorhomes today!Locking down Windows Vista and Windows. Malicious USB devices. Additionally, earlier versions of Windows. Intro A. Microsoft Windows box. USB flash drive usage. A security professional may. U3 thumb drives with undesired Autorun. In the case of Autorun/Autoplay concerns, the following Microsoft. Autorun on selected device. What. the article you are reading will concentrate on is stopping other classes of. USB devices, especially the PHUKD (Programmable HID USB. Keyboard/Mouse Dongle) from my upcoming Defcon presentation: http: //www. One. of the advantages of the PHUKD is that human interface devices (HIDs) like mice. Another advantage the PHUKD has is that many organizations. Autorun on their systems to prevent malware like Conficker. Hak. 5 U3. Hacksaw from functioning.
However, since a PHUKD is a USB HID, turning off. Autorun has no effect on it. There are however other Windows 7/Vista setting. USB devices. While. I did most of my testing of the following Windows Vista/7 security options. PHUKD device, they should also prove useful in blocking U3 thumb. Wi. Fi dongles (think inadvertent rogue access points), non- passive. Nirsoft's USBDeview was. A few of the more. USBDeview include: 1. To jump directly to these MMC plugins: Enter the command . These commands may be entered via the . Putting shortcuts to. Desktop is also an option of course. Now. that we have the needed tools, I'll cover the Device Installation Restriction. Windows 7/Vista. For each entry the following information. This should make it. Now. let's take a look at some of the GPO options Windows 7/Vista provides for. To bring up the list of Device Installation. Restriction options, use the command . If you enable this policy setting on a remote desktop server. If. you disable or do not configure this policy setting, members of the. Administrators group are subject to all policy settings that restrict device. Adrian's. should be obvious, this setting will have no effect unless you set one of the . If one of the policy settings prevents a USB device from. Doing a simple . An administrative user will have to go into Device Manager. Use this policy setting only when the . Other policy settings that prevent device installation take precedence. If. you enable this policy setting, Windows is allowed to install or update device. GUIDs appear in the list you create, unless. If you enable this policy setting on a. If. you disable or do not configure this policy setting, and no other policy. As. noted above, this setting does nothing unless . In other words, if you set the . While. this setting allows you to create a whitelist, it is rather painful to do so as. Device Classes for a given device. For. example, I had to enable the following to allow my Teensy based PHUKD device to. The GUID properties for the device did not seem. As. you can tell from the procedures listed above, using the . This policy setting takes precedence over any. Windows to install a device. If. you enable this policy setting, Windows is prevented from installing or. GUIDs appear in the list you. If you enable this policy setting on a remote desktop server, the. If. you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Windows can install and. Adrian's. Notes: . Device setup classes are collected. I imagine this setting would be useful if you know a specific. USB Wi. Fi adapters for example. If you want to. make the changes retroactive for previously installed hardware, choose the . For assistance please see. GUIDs provided at the end of this article. Registry. Equivalent: Key. Numbering should continue from 1. Display a custom message when installation. Microsoft's. Description: This policy setting allows you to display a custom message to. If. you enable this policy setting, Windows displays the text you type in the. Detail Text box when a policy setting prevents device installation. Instead of giving the default message. Use this policy setting only when the . Other policy settings that prevent device installation take precedence. If. you enable this policy setting, Windows is allowed to install or update any. Plug and Play hardware ID or compatible ID appears in the list you. If you enable this policy setting on a. If. you disable or do not configure this policy setting, and no other policy setting. Much like the options. These IDs can be. IDs or. compatible IDs. Hardware. IDs are meant to be rather specific to the device. They are used for finding. For example. I set my Teensy based PHUKD device to have a vendor ID of 1. Product ID. of 0. This means one of its hardware IDs is: USB\VID. As a matter of fact, it would be possible to have. ID whitelisted. For. Teensy HID might. IDs are meant to be fairly specific to a given piece of hardware, compatible. IDs are a fall back for when more specific drivers can't be found that support the. IDs. Compatible IDs are more general in other words. To collect compatible. IDs for your whitelist do the following: 1. If the device is currently prevented. GPO setting you may only see one device with an. After we finish with steps 2 through 4 on a composite device. Numbering should continue from 1. Prevent installation of devices. IDs Microsoft's. Description: This policy setting allows you to specify a list of Plug and. Play hardware IDs and compatible IDs for devices that Windows is prevented from. This policy setting takes precedence over any other policy setting. Windows to install a device. If. you enable this policy setting, Windows is prevented from installing a device. ID or compatible ID appears in the list you create. If you. enable this policy setting on a remote desktop server, the policy setting. If. you disable or do not configure this policy setting, devices can be installed. Adrian's. Notes: You. Keep in mind that this. IDs can be made very ineffective because of. ID they wish. For. I set my Teensy to use 1. ID, and 0. 12. 3 as the product. If a blacklist is. IDs to block device. If you want to make the. Numbering should continue from 1. Time (in seconds) to force reboot when. Microsoft's. Description: Set the amount of time (in seconds) that the system will wait. If. you disable or do not configure this setting, the system will not force a. If no reboot is forced, the device installation restriction right will not take. Adrian's. Notes: I've not. The effects of the setting I've made have always. Registry. Equivalent: Key. A device is considered removable when the driver. This policy. setting takes precedence over any other policy setting that allows Windows to. If. you enable this policy setting, Windows is prevented from installing removable. If. you enable this policy setting on a remote desktop server, the policy setting. If. you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Windows can install and. Adrian's. USB devices by their very nature are generally removable this is a pretty. It seems to pretty much override all other. If you want to. make the change retroactive for previously installed hardware, choose the . Otherwise the allow options are pretty. Windows to allow the installation of something this is. Registry. Equivalent: Key. Useful links: Prevent. Installation of Removable Deviceshttp: //technet. WS. 1. 0%2. 9. aspx. List of Class. IDshttp: //msdn. VS. 8. 5%2. 9. aspx.
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