[Technical] Antivirus and anti-malware protection

[Greg Neil (Mr)]

We do have a firewall, and limewire is not active during school hours. However these are laptops that belong to the students, and our directive is that the students get administrator access and are free to install pretty much anything they like. Our job is to fix the consequences of said mess. The parents of the few Mac users are probably the loudest and most fanatical about such matters.


-----Original Message-----
From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Jordie Ford
Sent: Fri 11/21/2008 8:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Technical] Antivirus and anti-malware protection
 
Don't you have a firewall at your school?
Also it is very easy to stop LimeWire on macs. But that's another matter (if
you want to know please ask me).


On 20/11/08 10:01 PM, "Greg Neil (Mr)" <greg at stmargarets.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> We are migrating from eTrust to Sophos. So far, so good. Remote deployment can
> be a bit hit and miss, but otherwise the central management is good. Support
> is responsive, which is also a bonus. We have also put the Mac version on a
> few laptops that have Limewire running on them (despite our recommendation to
> the contrary) and it has found a lot of infected files there. It will probably
> take us 12 months to completely migrate, simply from a licensing point of
> view.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Jordie Ford
> Sent: Thu 11/20/2008 6:59 PM
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>  
> Probably symantec. I think all deecd schools and offices use it. I would
> highly recommend sophos (trialing it at home for replacing etrust next
> year). Definitely don¹t do eTrust.
> 
> Just my two cents
> 
> On 20/11/08 8:54 AM, "Alan Oh" <OH.A at wcc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all. 
>>  
>> Our Symantec Endpoint Protection licence is expiring and I am considering
>> another package, possibly Sophos. Does anyone out there use it and are there
>> any teething issues or existing issues?
>>  
>> Apart from Sophos, what is being used by most other schools ?
>>  
>> Regards
>> Alan
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