[840] in resnet
Re: Virus Policies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Ramsey)
Fri Feb 15 10:16:30 2002
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:02:21 -0600
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From: Pat Ramsey <ramseyp@SOUTHWESTERN.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020215082502.00b1f0b0@stan.mail.ncsu.edu>
We require that students have up-to-date AV software on their computers.
It's not something that's easy to enforce but students are held
accountable if they end up wreaking havoc due to an infestation. The
consequences students face is to have their port disabled till they
contact us and clean their computer.
We have a license for McAfee that allows us to give it to students if
they don't have any anti-virus software installed. We haven't looked at
pushing updates across except for McAfee's Vires for the Mac OS. It has
an administration package that allows for the pushing of upgrades and
definitions. It's a bit old and I haven't seen any news from McAfee
about it being updated.
Pat
On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 07:48 AM, Stan North Martin wrote:
> 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 pulled for speeding and have an out of date inspection, you'll get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,
>
> Stan
>
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Pat Ramsey 512.863.1336
Macintosh Support Specialist ramseyp@southwestern.edu
Southwestern University http://www.southwestern.edu
"The press must learn that misguided use of a computer is no more
amazing than drunk driving of an automobile."
-Ken Thompson
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