Security Ramblings

Adblock Plus

So I have been using Adblock Plus personally for many years, 3 years ago we started automatically installing Adblock Plus to Chrome using Group Policy, Ad Blocking has become just another layer of defense to help us protect our users from Junkware, Malware and Ransomware. As a byproduct we reduced our malware infections by a good 30%-40% over the following year. The remaining is hard to combat as it was users engaging in high risk activities online (Free Minecraft, Malicious links from Social Media, etc).

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System Center Endpoint Protection PUA

We recently activated the PUA protection from microsoft as part of the the System Center Endpoint Protection suite for Windows 10 and so far it is working great. No more infections of Search Protect from Utorrent as Utorrent is blocked because it bundles software with it (lol).

Reg.exe add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\MpEngine" /v "MpEnablePus" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f

Ublock Origin

As we are always looking for better security and business continuity we are trialing Ublock Origin to replace Adblock Plus. So far our small test group reports are positive and I expect us to deploy it to a larger group of users in the next few days.

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