Network throughput concerns as well as student distraction in class has
prevented us from opening social sites to our students.=20
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.=20
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. =20
David Hennel
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From: Karen Douse [mailto:douse@harpethhall.org]=20
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.=20
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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