Re: Spyware and LAN client-server maintenance

From: unglued (dragonseed_at_spray.se)
Date: 03/13/05

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    Date: 13 Mar 2005 01:21:31 -0800

    FRAN wrote:
    > Our school has just recently taken delivery of a number of Dell PCs
    > (1.7 GHZ, 40GB HDD, 256 RAM) that are going to be running WINDOWS
    2000
    > NT NOS. Our system is set up so that our student users don't have
    > right-mouse outside of applications such as MS-Office. Students have
    no
    > right to alter "c:\".
    >
    > We are going to ghost a machine and use that clone the image to the
    > remaining 20 systems.
    >
    > Students have access to the web (with some restrictions imposed by
    the
    > requyired filtering systems) but our principle problems are spyware,
    > and of course the ususal viruses, trojans and so forth. We are
    running
    > Symantec with live upadates for these latter, but we still get a lot
    of
    > problems with unwanted plug-ins (eg "whenusearch" attaching to
    > Explorer)

    BHODemon can help you weed out unwanted "browser helper objects". Of
    course you could adopt the unpopular (among the students) policy to
    block all java and activeX activity with the firewall unless there is
    some very good reason that they must be available.

    >
    > A couple of questions come to mind.
    >
    > I'm considering installing Adaware, and Spybot S&D on the original
    > machine from which the ghost will be created. Are these the most
    > time-efficient, user-friendly and effective Malware products?
    >
    > Is reghosting from a pristine or defragged machine an adequate
    > maintenance alternative to defragmenting and disk clean up or are
    there
    > good reasons for going around and deleting unnecessary programs and
    > temp files before running scandisk and defrag better in some
    measurable
    > way?
    >
    > I'm trying to ensure I spend as little time fiddling as possible,
    > because, in practice time comes to us teachers in bits and pieces and
    > getting half way through a task and having to do something else is
    > quite common.

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