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Re: Deepfreeze on vm's?
From: Dennis Meharchand <dennis () VALTX COM>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:32:35 -0500
Kevin, Standing down is good advice – I’ll take it. Dennis Meharchand CEO, Valt.X Technologies Inc. Cell: 416-618-4622 Email: dennis () valtx com Web: www.valtx.com From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Mclaughlin, Kevin (mclaugkl) Sent: December 7, 2011 4:58 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [Possible Spam] Re: [SECURITY] Deepfreeze on vm's? Dennis: You really need to stand down. You are definitely not building strong customer relationships with your recent emails. - Kevin Kevin L. McLaughlin AVP, Information Security & Special Projects University of Cincinnati On Dec 7, 2011, at 4:13 PM, "Dennis Meharchand" <dennis () VALTX COM> wrote: Not a publicity stunt. I’m simply saying protect yourself in your purchase agreements. I would expect by March 2012 all of the infringement notices will be out. In fact I’ll send your University the first infringement notice right now Michael and I’ll give you 30 days to stop infringing – this way you can be convinced this is not a publicity stunt. I find your attitude repulsive – I’m giving good advice – alerting you to a problem and you would like to get the moderator involved? Dennis Meharchand CEO, Valt.X Technologies Inc. Cell: 416-618-4622 Email: dennis () valtx com Web: www.valtx.com From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of SCHALIP, MICHAEL Sent: December 7, 2011 9:34 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [Possible Spam] Re: [SECURITY] Deepfreeze on vm's? Bad form…..scare tactics…..bad publicity stunt…..how do we get the Educause moderator involved?? From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Walter Moore Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 6:54 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Deepfreeze on vm's? You had it right in your first paragraph. Whatever the merits of your patent case (and you will have to forgive my skepticism) you have no business interjecting it into this discussion. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Dennis Meharchand <dennis () valtx com> wrote: This is likely one of those situations where I should just continue to shut my mouth until we are already to act but here goes: My company Valt.X Technologies owns the patents in this area and we intend to enforce our patents in 2012. Here’s my advice – if you are using Deep Freeze or any VDI - include in your contract that they cover you for Patent Infringement. Valt.X has just won its first public tender in Canada – we own this area and intend to enforce our intellectual property rights. Our position is that Deep Freeze is a blatant copy of Valt.X issued patents and that VDI also infringes our patents – we intend to sue all infringers. Dennis Meharchand CEO, Valt.X Technologies Inc. Cell: 416-618-4622 Email: dennis () valtx com Web: www.valtx.com From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Brandon Payne Sent: December 6, 2011 6:01 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Deepfreeze on vm's? We are looking into VDI for all our computer labs. VMware View to be exact with WYSE P20 Zero Clients. Roughly about 300 or more vm's for all the labs.
From a virtual standpoint - do you see the need for Faronics Deepfreeze on all computer lab vm's? Currently we are using Deepfreeze on our desktops in all labs and has worked out great. For this situation, I'm not interested in the security implications of why Deepfreeze is bad, just if its recommended in a virtual environment.
What are you doing in situations if a user profile gets hosed up with malware in this vm enviroment? -- Brandon Payne Technical Support Specialist Information Services Sauk Valley Community College -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ Walter R. Moore -- Sr. Systems Administrator, Eckerd College moorewr () eckerd edu -- http://home.eckerd.edu/~moorewr "It was glorious to see -- if your heart were iron, And you could keep from grieving at all the pain" - The Iliad (13.355) I'm on twitter: http://twitter.com/moorewreckerd ***Reminder! ITS will never ask you to e-mail your password!*** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <http://www.mailscanner.info/> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <http://www.mailscanner.info/> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's?, (continued)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? SCHALIP, MICHAEL (Dec 06)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Brandon Payne (Dec 07)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Christopher R Webber (Dec 07)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Brandon Payne (Dec 08)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? SCHALIP, MICHAEL (Dec 06)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Dennis Meharchand (Dec 06)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Walter Moore (Dec 07)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? SCHALIP, MICHAEL (Dec 07)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Valerie Vogel (Dec 07)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Dennis Meharchand (Dec 07)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Mclaughlin, Kevin (mclaugkl) (Dec 07)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Dennis Meharchand (Dec 07)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Mclaughlin, Kevin (mclaugkl) (Dec 07)
- OT: Software patent FUD? Steve Bohrer (Dec 07)
- Re: OT: Software patent FUD? Jay Fowler (Dec 07)
- Re: OT: Software patent FUD? R. J. Cronk (Dec 07)
- Re: OT: Software patent FUD? Dave Koontz (Dec 07)
- Re: OT: Software patent FUD? Tracy Mitrano (Dec 07)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Walter Moore (Dec 07)
- Re: Deepfreeze on vm's? Valdis Kletnieks (Dec 07)
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- FW: Michael - Patent Infringement Notice SCHALIP, MICHAEL (Dec 08)
- Re: FW: Michael - Patent Infringement Notice Hanson, Mike (Dec 08)
- Re: FW: Michael - Patent Infringement Notice Drew Perry (Dec 08)