"Why would any remote admin tell me what to do on my local machine? Even if it's a company machine."
Because it's not your machine! It's not your ram, CPU, or disk. Kudos on figuring out how to disable it, but even that file was not yours to touch. Buy your own MacBook if you want full control.
Grew up in Russia, lived in the States, moved to Germany, sometimes live in Spain. I program since I was 13. I used to program games, maps and now I reverse engineer password managers and other stuff
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Berlin and Málaga
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MS in CS from State Polytechnic University of St. Petersburg
I don't own the machine, that is true and there you're right. I use it though to do stuff for work and if it prevents me from doing it I have to do something about it. Plus there's no company policy that I have to have VPN on at all times, especially not when I'm offline. Then why do I have to have it running? It's either an oversight or admin power games that make no sense.
Dmitry sounds like a brilliant developer to me who wants to do his work on the computer that his company provided for him.
Technically, it is not his computer, but when you make him admin on that computer, you are giving him all the right to do as he please to finish his work, and if that means to uninstall a BLOCKIN/ANNOYING program, then he can do that too.
We have had MAJOR problems with security programs in my company, where our lead architect had to launch a very important service live but he COULDN'T because of the security program was eating up all his RAM then it was moving to eat his paging file!
They need to improve these security programs or just remove them!
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"Why would any remote admin tell me what to do on my local machine? Even if it's a company machine."
Because it's not your machine! It's not your ram, CPU, or disk. Kudos on figuring out how to disable it, but even that file was not yours to touch. Buy your own MacBook if you want full control.
I don't own the machine, that is true and there you're right. I use it though to do stuff for work and if it prevents me from doing it I have to do something about it. Plus there's no company policy that I have to have VPN on at all times, especially not when I'm offline. Then why do I have to have it running? It's either an oversight or admin power games that make no sense.
Andre, are you an admin? Just curious.
Dmitry sounds like a brilliant developer to me who wants to do his work on the computer that his company provided for him.
Technically, it is not his computer, but when you make him admin on that computer, you are giving him all the right to do as he please to finish his work, and if that means to uninstall a BLOCKIN/ANNOYING program, then he can do that too.
We have had MAJOR problems with security programs in my company, where our lead architect had to launch a very important service live but he COULDN'T because of the security program was eating up all his RAM then it was moving to eat his paging file!
They need to improve these security programs or just remove them!