Audit > Application Blocker

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Prevent any application from running on a machine. Applications listed here are blocked when a user double clicks them or tries to run the application at all.

The application can be referenced by file name and/or a portion of the full path. For example, adding an application named blockme.exe to the list, prevents all occurrences of blockme.exe, on any directory or on any drive, from running. Adding myfolder\blockme.exe prevents occurrences of the application in any directory named myfolder from running.

Note: Blocked application may not be renamed, moved, or deleted from the system.

Add

To block an application from running on a machine, the application's filename and click the add button.

Delete

Remove an application from the blocked list by clicking the Delete button. This opens a new dialog box listing all blocked applications for the selected machine IDs. You can remove applications from just the selected machine or from all machines containing that file path.

Explanation of items on this page

The following elements are displayed in the File Access function:

Machine.Group ID

List the Machine ID of all machines that match the Specify Accounts filter. Each Machine ID is a link. Clicking the machine ID name displays the list of applications found by audit for that machine ID.  Use this to quickly browse for application names on to approve or deny file access to.

Application Location

Filename of the application to be blocked.

Check-in status

The check-in status of the machines shown in the client machine list is indicated by the icon shown to the left of the client machine ID. The icons and their status are as follows:

Agent has checked in  

Agent has not recently checked in

Agent has never checked in