Thousands of new portable apps are made every day and thousands more are updated - therefore changing their signatures. Far easier to generate a list of what you do have and only allow that. So you are talking about 99.99% of all software in the universe to block. If you think listing all the apps that you do have is hard, imagine listing every app that you don't have! It is literally millions or billions of apps.Īny app that doesn't have a Windows installer hook (basically) is a portable app. Whitelisting is quite literally your only option. There are going to be false positives but I don't think there are going to be that many. What I was thinking is having the antivirus quarentine anything with the word portable in it. We have 15,000 pc's so I couldn't list every program. Whitelisting would be even mopre impoosible. I am not really to worried about that as it will be a long while before we move to that.Īctually I read what you said wrong. Yeah that is pretty much the only way I saw also.

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