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Ugh, tell me about it...
I'm a fairly new employee at a university and it's my first job in the academic area. I'm still trying to adjust to the fact that we "have" to let people (students, visiting professors etc.) plug unprotected, out-of-date computers into our network. Even more incredible to me is that we don't have a policy requiring AV software on outside machines that plug into our network - instead, we offer a discount on a package, but it't not required (meaning that if we find an infected machine, there isn't much we can do about it except ask them nicely to take it off the network).

The havoc that this can wreak on a network is incredible. A few weeks ago, someone had to come in early on a Saturday b/c a grad student plugged in their laptop and immediately flooded the network so badly with traffic that just about everything else shut down. We couldn't do anything to the student's machine since it belonged to her employer and she wouldn't let us touch it other than to run some anti-spyware utilities. The only solution was to put that classroom on their own dedicated DSL connection so they could still get out onto the internet without killing everything else.

In some ways, these are the worst imaginable end-users I've had to deal with. Ugh..
Posted by: StephG72   Posted on: 01/10/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Par For The Course At Many Universities  itanalyst | 01/10/05
Ugh, tell me about it...  StephG72 | 01/10/05
Exactlly what MS is addressing. (nt)  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/10/05
MS Isn't Addressing CRAP  itanalyst | 01/11/05
Actually not!  ShadeTree | 01/11/05
Still Does NOT Answer My Question  itanalyst | 01/11/05
What difference does it make.  ShadeTree | 01/11/05
Makes A HUGE Difference  itanalyst | 01/11/05
Hmmm, and it runs Apache no less  Confused by religion | 01/10/05
Call me nitpicky.  Jack-Booted EULA | 01/10/05
What Does Apache Have To Do With This??!  itanalyst | 01/10/05
The web server may not be important...  Linux User 147560 | 01/10/05
Still, What Database Was In Use?  itanalyst | 01/10/05
One that seems to be left out  Linux User 147560 | 01/10/05
Virginia and SSNs  John L. Ries | 01/10/05
"Not to be used for identification purposes"  Roger Ramjet | 01/11/05
Correct  John L. Ries | 01/11/05
Lies!  The_Truth | 01/11/05

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