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Scripts are not executables



Agreed, but Carbon Black can stop scripts from running.


If it lets you spawn a shell I would bet money against that


If you write a batch file on a Windows PC with Carbon Black on it, you will not be able to run it. Of course there is customisation available to tweak what is/isn't allowed.


Yes, but that's like 1% of the actual surface area for "running a script". I am not a Windows expert but on, say, Linux you can overwrite a script that someone has already run, or modify a script that is already running, or use an interpreter that your antivirus doesn't know about, or sit around and wait for a script to get run and then try to swap yourself into the authorization that gets granted for that, or…there's a whole lot of things. I assume Windows has most of the same problems. My confidence in Carbon Black stopping this is quite low.




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