Systems and methods for preventing the installation of unapproved applications

摘要

The disclosed computer-implemented method for preventing the installation of unapproved applications may include (1) determining that the computing device is pre-configured with a set of approved applications and (2) preventing the installation of unapproved applications onto the computing device by (a) monitoring processes running on the computing device via a daemon executing in the background of the computing device, (b) detecting, by monitoring the processes running on the computing device, an attempt to launch a process that facilitates the installation of applications onto the computing device, and (c) in response to detecting the attempt to launch the process, terminating the process before the process can facilitate the installation of an application onto the computing device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for preventing the installation of unapproved applications, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising:
determining that the computing device is pre-configured with a set of approved applications; preventing the installation of unapproved applications onto the computing device by:
monitoring, via a daemon executing in a background of the computing device, processes running on the computing device;detecting, by monitoring the processes running on the computing device, an attempt to launch a process that facilitates the installation of applications onto the computing device, wherein the process:
prompts a user of the computing device to provide input into a user interface to initiate the installation of applications;requires a certain amount of time to launch the user interface after the process is launched;in response to detecting the attempt to launch the process, terminating the process before the amount of time required by the process to launch the user interface has passed.