williemon
05-14-2004, 12:10 PM
I am responsible for supporting 800+ computers in an educational setting. As it is, the students can go to many internet sights. We do use routers and hardware firewalls in the network, as well as proper filtering to keep students away from many non educational sites. However, there has been an explosion of spyware issues as well as virus issues causing problems. We have the virus issues and software update issues properly address. What is not under control is the spyware issue.
As I understand it, we can run spybot and adaware to rid machines of the spyware, and run spyware blaster to help keep it away, but is there anything else that i am missing? The virus protection is constant and auto updating as is any OS updates. These can also be applied without user or technician intervention due to the automated processes we use now. But it seems the spyware issue is a full manual situation requireing a technician to touch each computer to setup and run the detection each time and to setup any blockers. Am I missing something here? Also, which blocker would be the better one to use? Are there more than just one? How do others take care of this situation? Thanks all.
As I understand it, we can run spybot and adaware to rid machines of the spyware, and run spyware blaster to help keep it away, but is there anything else that i am missing? The virus protection is constant and auto updating as is any OS updates. These can also be applied without user or technician intervention due to the automated processes we use now. But it seems the spyware issue is a full manual situation requireing a technician to touch each computer to setup and run the detection each time and to setup any blockers. Am I missing something here? Also, which blocker would be the better one to use? Are there more than just one? How do others take care of this situation? Thanks all.