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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon typicode

Windows startup fails on machines with AntiVirus programs running

Open innerverse opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

It appears at least on MS Defender and Symantec End Point security, the VBScript is ignored in the Startup folder.

There is a way to add a user-specific registry entry that doesn't require Admin to add a Windows startup process. This works with these AV programs running. To do this, I used the npm module winreg. If you'd be interested in a way to register a platform specific override for the platform strategy, and a new strategy, I can put together a pull request.

It may require an alternative 'export' style.

Thoughts?

innerverse avatar Oct 13 '15 18:10 innerverse

Well, personally I'm not a fan of programs modifying the registry. But maybe it's fine. Do you have a link or some doc explaining which key/value should be added?

PS: I'll be on vacation for 2 weeks, so I won't be able to test things.

typicode avatar Oct 16 '15 06:10 typicode

Looks like the module in question is winreg. Its README has an example for adding a program to startup.

sirlancelot avatar Sep 20 '16 22:09 sirlancelot