[OPLINTECH] patron USB drive

[Whetsel, Shawn]

Kevin,

See posts #5 and #8, but this is what we do to prevent any EXE files from being able to be ran from a USB drive. (Note: this will not prevent Minecraft from running completely, because it can be ran from a .jar file so you need to add .jar files to the list of blocked files as well.)

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/7041-stopping-exe-files-being-run-usb-stick.html

Shawn Whetsel
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From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Jones
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 8:48 AM
To: OPLINTECH
Subject: [OPLINTECH] patron USB drive

Hello everyone,

A patron recently forgot a USB drive in one of our computers.  After looking at it to discover the owner, I found that it was made into a portable gaming USB drive that had Technic Launcher on it for Minecraft.  After reading about this, it allows them to install and manage modpacks for Minecraft.

I don't allow the USB drives to be bootable at startup or to autorun in order to keep patrons from getting past PC Reservation without logging in.  I am not very familiar with the online gaming stuff, so I was wondering if there was any security issues with allowing patrons to continue using USB devices in this manner?

Is there a way to keep portable OS devices and game launching devices form working without stopping the use of USB drives for saving files or opening Word docs and the like?
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