Thursday, June 14, 2018

Free Utility to disable risky features in Windows OS, MS Office and in Adobe.




Generic Windows Features

  • Disable Windows Script Host. 
  • Disabling AutoRun and AutoPlay. D
  • Disables powershell.exe, powershell_ise.exe and cmd.exe execution via Windows Explorer. 
  • Sets User Account Control (UAC) to always ask for permission (
  • Disable file extensions mainly used for malicious purposes. Disables the ".hta", ".js", ".JSE", ".WSH", ".WSF", ".scf", ".scr", ".vbs", ".vbe" and ".pif" file extensions 



Microsoft Office

  • Disable Macros.
  • Disable OLE object execution. 
  • Disabling ActiveX.
  • Disable DDE.




Acrobat Reader

  • Disable JavaScript in PDF documents.
  • Disable execution of objects embedded in PDF documents.
  • Switch on the Protected Mode
  • Switch on Enhanced Security


https://github.com/securitywithoutborders/hardentools

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