Prevent installation of Viber in Domain Computer

Question

We have standard domain where running executables require administrative privileges but when I get Viber and run it installs without prompting admin password, I do not know what type of installation is that, I want to prevent it by Group Policy. Need Help how to do that. Thanks

Answer 1

The Group Policy to use is Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Don’t run specified Windows applications.

Set the policy to Enabled, select "Show..." and add the executable name (??.exe).

Press OK twice to terminate.

You may also do so in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun, using values created as "DWORD (32-bit)" and named 1, 2 etc whose values are the executables to block (??.exe).

For more details see Prevent Users From Running Certain Programs.