Re: Verifying Computer connectivity assistance

From: Dave (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:52:39 -0500

"DMI" <DMI@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32E541E4-330E-4149-AF17-4BA2EBFD7FA2@microsoft.com...
> Our company spend a good amount of resources making our site secure
against
> external threats but not internal threats. Last week a User brought a
> portable computer from home and the only thing he did was to connect the
> computer to the network. The computer was not part of our network and it
did
> not authenticate with our domain control. It just got the IP address and
> network configuration from the DHCP server. The computer infected our
> network with three old viruses (w32.funlove.4099.html) and it caused some
> issues.
>
> The question I have is How can I avoid this from happening again? Any
> Microsoft or third party software?
>

fire the person that did it and make sure its well publicized.

then fire the IT person that didn't make sure every machine has a virus
scanner that is automatically updated.... and use their salery to buy a
corporate edition of a good virus scanner.

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