Wait until your bosses machine gets infected. Maybe that's what it will take to get the policy changed.
And you should try using another AV product if the current one is not keeping your systems cleaned from known viruses. How are you cleaning them when you find them? (read: are you sure you're actually cleaning them?) -ASB On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:27:58 -0500, Kern, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. I am having a serious issue with bot type worms that keep infecting > my machines over and over. It doesn't matter that I'm fully patched and my > virus defs are up to date. > I use Symantec Corporate Edition 9.0 in a win2k mixed mode AD enviroment. My > machines all have the most up to date patches and hot fixes. > I have seen machines that are up to date in everything get reinfected time > and time again. The worm is a varient of what Symantec calls Spybot.worm32. > It usually creates a exe in system32 called Explorer.exe or 386.exe or > svchosting.exe and no matter the defs it slips by Symantec. > > This is a posting perhaps better sent to a virus or Symantec list,but you > guys seem really knowldgeable and I'd like to pick your collective brains > about how to deal with this issue. > I assume its getting in via laptop users wh take their pc's home at nite or > some of our traveling sales guys,but if my desktops are up to date and > patched,they should'nt get infected. > No? > Am I being naive? > > Finally,we are a liqour distributor and alot of times we have suppliers from > other companies come in with laptops that give powerpoint presentations and > access our internet connection. These guys are from elsewhere so they don't > have accounts in our domain and thus log in locally. > How can i protect myself against these guys? Management insits they be > allowed to do their thing with their laptops on our network when they come in > and since they don't log into our domain,I can't even push out a GPO and I'm > at the mercy of these guys and what hteir IT dept did or did not do. > Help! > > Thanks alot. If I can get a solution to just one of these 2 questions,I'll be > a happy man. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
