re: Network Sharing/College/Security
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 4:07 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Norm
(1501 messages posted)
Talked to my daughter last night. She has a appointment with IT today. Hopefully
they will get their AntiVirus(Sophos) installed. That is the best I can hope for
at this point. I have always been the one to work on her system and to try to walk
her through stuff on the phone is very difficult. Here is what she replied when I
sent her a link to this post. Pretty funny. Thanks for your input!!
i am soooo confused.
i called IT but they still haven't called back yet.
this is bugging me really bad.
all that stuff on the forum makes no sense to me.
haha this is awful...
On Monday, August 25, 2008 at 5:57 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:
>Have her try to D/L either AVG or Avast free. See if they will install. These are
>full service AVs and work well in most configurations. Colleges are the worst when
>it comes to network policy.
>I had to contact some people at Rutgers and they wanted me to use their version
of
>instant messaging for the discussion. But when signing up for the IM they not only
>asked for my SSN but asked for it on a no-SSl (not secured) page. These people are
>little more than students themselves. Your daughter is better off using a satellite
>or cell connection like that new Verizon being advertised. At least for the short
>term. It may not be as fast but if she looses her personal identification info or
>some research papers due to hack or something it would cost you more to fix that
>mess.
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