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Re: Student Antivirus Replacement Project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eben, William)
Wed Oct 12 12:21:24 2011
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:17:31 -0400
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From: "Eben, William" <eben@kutztown.edu>
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We stopped providing AV for students when our contract with Sophos expired =
in June. We don't care what AV they use, but students with missing/outdated=
AV are provided a link to Security Essentials during the remediation proce=
ss.
We never required students to use a particular AV product, so we didn't hav=
e to campaign to get students to switch.
We use Forefront for faculty/staff.
Bill
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Bill Eben
Kutztown University
On Oct 12, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Andy Voelker wrote:
I'm starting a project to remove Symantec as our provided antivirus solutio=
n for our students. The product, as inexpensive as it is to us under state=
contract, is still not worth the price and the product's effectiveness is =
my primary concern. Due to the budget situation we would likely have to mo=
ve to a cheap to free replacement such as Microsoft Security Essentials, Fo=
refront (which our license currently includes), or some other free variant.=
I'm looking for any input people can give, such as:
1. What did/would you move to?
2. How do you handle the PR campaign to the students to get them to switch=
? We don't want to tell them we've been giving them a bad product that we =
paid for for the last few years, but we still want them to switch. Also, f=
aculty/staff may not make the switch at the same time, so we don't want the=
m to see the ads and make a fuss over not getting the best product.
3. Do you have any gripes over Symantec you'd like to share?
Any input would be appreciated.
Andy Voelker
Western Carolina University
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space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We stopped providing AV fo=
r students when our contract with Sophos expired in June. We don't care wha=
t AV they use, but students with missing/outdated AV are provided a link to=
Security Essentials during the remediation process.<div><br></div><div>We =
never required students to use a particular AV product, so we didn't have t=
o campaign to get students to switch.</div><div><br></div><div>We use Foref=
ront for faculty/staff.</div><div><br><div>
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h: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Bill<br>--<br>Bill Eben<br>Kutztown University=
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<br><div><div>On Oct 12, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Andy Voelker wrote:</div><br cl=
ass=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div>I'm starti=
ng a project to remove Symantec as our provided antivirus solution for our =
students. The product, as inexpensive as it is to us under state cont=
ract, is still not worth the price and the product's effectiveness is my pr=
imary concern. Due to the budget situation we would likely have to mo=
ve to a cheap to free replacement such as Microsoft Security Essentials, Fo=
refront (which our license currently includes), or some other free variant.=
I'm looking for any input people can give, such as:<br><br>1. =
What did/would you move to?<br><br>2. How do you handle the PR campai=
gn to the students to get them to switch? We don't want to tell them =
we've been giving them a bad product that we paid for for the last few year=
s, but we still want them to switch. Also, faculty/staff may not make=
the switch at the same time, so we don't want them to see the ads and make=
a fuss over not getting the best product.<br><br>3. Do you have any =
gripes over Symantec you'd like to share?<br><br>Any input would be appreci=
ated.<br><br>Andy Voelker<br>Western Carolina University<br><br>--<br><br>_=
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