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At our school I regullarly remove these types of files from students accounts.

Go to a CMD Prompt, navigate to the folder the students data is stored, assuming it's all in one location then type:

del *.exe /f/s/q

This removes all exe's from the students profiles and data.

I also run the same command but with *.zip and *.txt.

They way I see it is they have no reason to have any of these in their accounts (the .txt's clears out the cookies).



EDIT: I know it's not what you're looking for but it's the best I can do at my place.

 

lol that is excellent, don't ya just love 'em

How are they getting the *.exe's onto the network in the first place?

 

Hmmm, I guess you can't have much control over their personal laptops. Do you have a policy that makes it *clear* to the kids they are not allowed to copy potentially damaging files such as executable programs onto the network?

 

how about giving any kids found doing this a sound hiding? in full view of the rest of the school too. that'll put a stop to it

i wouldnt delete .txts myself. many people (myself included) use .txt files to make quick notes, since it loads faster than word, and is a lot less hassle.

 

You obviously don't work in a school do you fergal!

One of the reasons fro me deleting the .txt files is that is one of the ways that students get round with games, they will rename the file to a .txt file and hope it is safe until they next want to use it, at which point they rename it again.

Sneaky little buggers kids!

 

funny thing is I use to do that when I was at college...its how it all started for me...like recently I downloaded a file that ended in .img and since I dont have a program that burns .img files I renamed it to .iso and hey presto was able to burn the file using Nero...isnt it amazing when you remember things like that? at first I thought it wouldnt work but it did! but these days kids are certainly catching up and getting smarter....I agree with Fergal give them a reasonable hiding

 

could you not set it to delete any .txt files over a reasonable size (30K maybe?). After all, above that limit is too large for a txt file, and if they are actually using it for text, then they need to wise up. beyond a reasonable size they should be using word, etc.

 

I think Fergal has a good idea, only to start with I'd move their files to another folder that they don't have access to just in case it is a needed file. That way the file is recoverable if it is actually a needed, legitimate file. Then I'd write a script to just delete everything out of that storage a folder once a semester or once a quarter.

 

I just tried a test on that (using a valid unc path and file) and no joy, the network path was not found.

 

Yeah, I keep forgetting you're using Windows, not Linux. If you used a Samba server as your file server you could move the files to a common directory and search for them by file owner name and filename if you needed to find a file moved from a specific user's /home folder. Here's how it would work in Linux: ls -al | grep 'user_name' | grep 'filename'.

You could find any file moved from any user's home folder in a matter of seconds.

The same thing can be accomplished in vbscript too, only it takes a lot more of a script to do the job.

EDIT: The ls command above is how it would be written if you had used the "cd" command to enter the directory holding the files. Run from another directory it would be "ls -al /path/to/directory | grep 'user_name' | grep 'filename'.

 

Dont you guys back up your systems? If not, why not? and if so, then there you go, if they have a file that is genuine, you restore from backup, verify, and return to the student.

Fergal