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RE: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
From: "Wojtek Zlobicki" <wojtekz () idirect com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:21:36 -0500
I would hate to blame the users here. In most organizations it is the role of the IT Dept to manage the workstations and not end users. Severely restricting users privileges is often a good thing, at least from the perspective of being able to control what gets installed on the machines in question. Having consistent hardware and software images also helps (where rooted boxes are quickly re-imaged), as well as having a good distributed anti-virus solution. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Ryan Dobrynski Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:21 PM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Having sat up until the wee hours of the AM last night cleaning up virus traffic on one of my private nets (an inhouse private net at that) i was giving this some thought. It seems that as with all things, knowledge is power. While all of the machines on the floor where the net op's team lives where fine (mostly windows), the entire call center was infected (entirely windows). When i went downstairs and spoke with them i was suprised (ok not really) to find that none of them knew how to run windows update or had ever heard of the xp firewall feature.
Current thread:
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????, (continued)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Petri Helenius (Nov 26)
- RE: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Vivien M. (Nov 25)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Brian Bruns (Nov 25)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Scott McGrath (Nov 25)
- RE: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Vivien M. (Nov 25)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? William Allen Simpson (Nov 25)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Sean Donelan (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Ryan Dobrynski (Nov 25)
- RE: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Vivien M. (Nov 25)
- RE: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Wojtek Zlobicki (Nov 25)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 25)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Petri Helenius (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Petri Helenius (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Gerardo Gregory (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Nov 24)
- Re[2]: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Richard Welty (Nov 24)
- Re: Re[2]: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Alexei Roudnev (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 24)