Faronics Anti-Virus & Deep Freeze and Ballston Spa Central School District

Faronics Deep Freeze Gives Ballston Spa Central School District an Alternative to Computer Imaging by Ryan Majeau – 04/18/11

If you had 4,200 students and over 1,700 workstations in your school district, you can only imagine the daily wear and tear to your IT infrastructure. System errors, blue screens of death and busted DVD drives. And those are only from the students using them! With the threat of malware growing each day, keeping up with it is a full time job itself. This was the story all too familiar to the tech staff in the Ballston Spa Central School District.

Staff would rebuild and reimage computers weekly and their anti-virus efforts came with a price to network and system performance. If the computers weren’t updated they were even more vulnerable to malware threats. They needed an alternative to computer imaging that worked seamlessly with a network-efficient anti-virus solution. They needed Faronics.

With solutions that are easy to use and deliver significant value, Faronics gave the tech staff an alternative to computer imaging that ensured full system uptime. Faronics Deep Freeze restores original workstation configurations with a simple reboot and works seamlessly with Faronics Anti-Virus.

“Not only is Faronics Anti-Virus the only solution which is fully compatible with Deep Freeze, but it is also faster, more network efficient and more effective against malware,” says Brian Merchant, Coordinator of Technical Support Services for BSCSD.

Thanks to Faronics the district sees a reduced number of support calls. Their IT professionals can now focus

https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/faronics-anti-virus-deep-freeze-and-ballston-spa-central-school-district_en-uk

Faronics Anti-Executable Standard/Server Standard Feature History

Version 5.30 (February 2014)

  • Support for Windows 8.1

Version 5.20 (November 2012)

  • Support for Windows 8.
  • Support for Windows Server 2012.
  • New Reporting Feature: Anti-Executable Standard now has the ability to display a report of Most Blocked Programs for a date range.
  • Ability to open the log file directly from the UI.
  • Anti-Executable is now available in Portuguese (Brazilian).

Version 5.10 (July 2012)

  • Active Directory Integration Active Directory users and groups can directly be added as Anti-Executable administrators and trusted users.
  • UI and UX Improvements:
    • Detailed information displayed to the user when a file is blocked.
    • Detailed progress bar with time estimations is now visible while scanning the computer.
    • Anti-Executable is now launched by double-clicking the Anti-Executable icon in the system tray.

Version 5.00 (April 2012)

• Granular control of Publishers

Publishers can be controlled on four different levels: Certificate, Product Name, Program File and File Version.

• Three New Reports

Three new reports are available: Additions to Local Control List,  Addition to Central Control List – Files, and Addition to Central Control List – Publishers.

• User Interface Improvements

The following user interface improvements are available: In-column search and filtering when navigating control lists, Provisioning of Anti-Executable users based on local and domain accounts, and Alert dialog.

• Deprecated Features

Blocking of Publishers

Anti-Executable no longer provides an ability to block a specific Publisher. Since Anti-Executable works on default deny principle, only programs that are explicitly allowed to run

https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/faronics-anti-executable-standard-feature-history_en-uk

Faronics Anti-Executable Enterprise/Server Enterprise Feature History

Version 5.30 (February 2014)

  • Support for Windows 8.1

Version 5.20 (November 2012)

  • Support for Windows 8.
  • Support for Windows Server 2012.
  • Ability to open the log file directly from the UI.
  • Anti-Executable is now available in Portuguese (Brazilian).

Version 5.10 (July 2012)

  • Active Directory Integration Active Directory users and groups can directly be added as Anti-Executable administrators and trusted users.
  • New Reporting Database Efficient reporting possible with the new Reporting Database.
  • New Reports Two new reports Top Blocked Programs and Top Violated Machines now available.
  • UI and UX Improvements:
    • Detailed information displayed to the user when a file is blocked.
    • Detailed progress bar with time estimations is now visible while scanning the computer.
    • Anti-Executable is now launched by double-clicking the Anti-Executable icon in the system tray.

Version 5.00 (April 2012)

• Central Control List

The Central Control List represents a collection of all files and publishers that can be used to create and enforce Anti-Executable policies. The entries in the Central Control List do not contain Allow or Block parameters and such actions are configured via Anti-Executable Policies.

• Policies

Policies are used as the vehicle for enforcing specific configurations of Anti-Executable. A policy contains configuration of file, folder, publisher control attributes, alerts, temporary execution mode details, and general settings.

• Granular control of Publishers

Publishers can be controlled on four different levels: Certificate, Product Name, Program File and File Version.

• Three New Reports

Three new reports are available: Additions to Local Control List,  Addition to Central

https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/faronics-anti-executable-enterprise-feature-history_en-uk