[838] in resnet
Re: Virus Policies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Manjak)
Fri Feb 15 09:16:55 2002
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:19:16 -0500
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From: Martin Manjak <MManjak@UAMAIL.ALBANY.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
Stan,
We do require that our students have active, current AV
software running on their machines as a condition of connecting
to our network. As you pointed out, this is something that we
can't enforce, but it's an a priori that they can subsequently
be held accountable to.
We also have a site license for Norton AV Corporate Edition,
although we don't push the managed client out. Instead, we've
configured the unmanaged client to go to a local server on a
weekly basis to pull down the updates.
We've tried to promote awareness of this among the students with
varying degrees of success. (We just produced a video commercial
to run on our cable network. We'll show it at the upcoming ResNet
Symposium).
We really don't have any sanctions for not having the software.
I'm not sure what the sanctions would be (loss of network access
and consequently no access to the software?)
Lots of students come with an AV client installed on their new
machines and think that they're protected, not realizing that they
have to periodically update the def files.
Short of the threat of a visit from the angel of death, I think
most students don't take the need for AV software seriously.
Consequently, it's an education process that should begin with
their first orientation visit and be repeated by the school ad nauseum.
M-
Martin Manjak
Director, Residential Network
University at Albany
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan North Martin [mailto:stan_martin@NCSU.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:49 AM
> To: RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: Virus Policies
>
>
> I have a further virus policy question for folks:
> Do any of you *require* your students to have up-to-date anti-virus
> software on their computers if they are hooked up to your
> campus network?
> We are considering adding this to our ResNet Terms and Conditions. Of
> course it is not really enforceable unless you go to the extreme of
> requiring a managed client, but it's sort of like vehicle
> inspections...you
> may not get pulled over for it unless you're spewing smoke,
> but if you get
> pulled for speeding and have an out of date inspection,
> you'll get ticketed
> for that as well.
>
> I would be interested in hearing from any schools who have already
> implemented such a policy. How do you respond if someone is found in
> violation of the policy, especially if you find out because
> they call up
> asking for help with removing a well-known worm that has been
> around for a
> year?
>
> As for Lisa's question, like many other campuses we have a
> site license for
> Norton AV Corporate Edition for both university and personally-owned
> computers. We offer both the managed and unmanaged versions,
> but encourage
> our students on ResNet to install the managed version so the
> definition
> files get pushed out to them instead of them having to run
> Live Update.
> After the fall rush our staff assists students with virus removal.
>
> This could be a panel presentation at this summer's conference.....
>
> Cheers,
>
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