Netscape disabling with ikiosk

[Glen Davies]

> Hi all:
> 
> Our library is using Netscape 3 on a Windows 3.1 platform.  We have
> successfuly disabled most of the security hazards on the machines with
> IKIOSK.  I am having some trouble disabling the ability to download
> programs from the internet.  I have disabled the SAVE AS.. command in
> the file menu, but when you click on a program to download on a web
> page, it still allows you to download onto the hard drive.  I have tried
> using the record feature, but am getting nowhere fast.  If I disable
> some of the commands I have recorded, I end up without being able to
> save anything anywhere.  This is a problem, especially when you need to
> be able to change the colors on a web page in order to print.
> 
Under Options/General  Preferences/Helpers you will notice that 
anything with an extension of bin, exe, zip etc will be set to save 
to disk. You can stop them being saved to disk by instead selecting 
launch application and selecting clock.exe or something else as the 
applicatin to launch, then every time a program link is selected the 
clock is launched and nothing else happens. (you also then need to 
disable access to the general preferences menu)

The most effective way however  to stop people downloading programs 
is to use a proxy server, this enables you to specify which mime 
types you want people to have access to.
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