one-to-one laptop program. Most of the students who do use Facebook, they
have time over study halls or tutorials.
If students using Facebook during class time is a problem, maybe if you
catch them using Facebook during class, teachers may detain the laptops
until the end of the day. While laptops are a powerful tool, they also come
with responsibility to respect the teacher and the education provided by the
school.
As for viruses that comes into our network, we use a UTM device (SonicWall
Pro 3060) which scans network packets for viruses & spyware. Any viruses or
spyware anyone visits is blocked by our UTM. Our anti-spam server is done
by our Barracuda.
To combat the rise in rogue software, I believe a quick education in spyware
and exploits would be needed before they can get their laptop back. If you
just give it back to them, have they learned anything from the experience?
Maybe you can hold on to it for a 24+ hour period before you return it.
Just some ideas...
Brian
On 1/8/09 3:56 PM, "Hennel, David" <henneld@notredameprep.com> wrote:
> Wow great stuff so far, thank you all for your input
>
> Network throughput concerns as well as student distraction in class has
> prevented us from opening social sites to our students.
>
> Our students are local administrators on their laptops so we are
> constantly dealing with malware and virus issues that occur when they
> take the machines home.
>
> Karen,
> We have seen a rise lately in imaging due to our students being fooled
> into installing the many variations of Antivirus XP 2008/9 rouge
> software that's been out there. We have been trying to get our students
> to use other browsers that are not so susceptible to ActiveX exploits,
> such as Firefox.
>
> David Hennel
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Douse [mailto:douse@harpethhall.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:20 PM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Facebook question
>
> Hi Linda - Is this because of student laptops? Don't the students use
> Facebook on their laptops when they go home? We do block Facebook for
> students during the day - not because of viruses or safety, but because
> they were spending too much time on
> Facebook during the day. Our girls get malware from using laptops at
> home - we just have to help them to remove it or reimage their machines.
> It does not affect our network - only their laptops.
>
> Are the rest of you seeing a rise in spyware and malware recently? Right
> now our biggest problem is coming from free TV and movie sites where
> students download software to watch TV and movies - it downloads spyware
> that shuts off our spyware protection -
> tells the user she has a virus - then tries to sell her virus protection
> that will remove it. We have not seen any viruses get past our system in
> ages - not from Facebook or anywhere else.
>
> It's always something!
>
> Karen
>
> Karen Douse
> Director of Library and Information Services
> Ann Scott Carell Library
> Harpeth Hall School
> 615-346-0116
> douse@harpethhall.org
> A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on
> Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 1:39 PM -0600 wrote:
>> Our Director of Information Technology, Ben Liu, would like to know how
>> schools who do not block Facebook prevent hacking and Facebook viruses.
>> How do you keep your network secure?
>
>
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