I would hate to blame the users here. In most organizations it is the role of the IT Dept to manage the workstations and not end users. Severely restricting users privileges is often a good thing, at least from the perspective of being able to control what gets installed on the machines in question. Having consistent hardware and software images also helps (where rooted boxes are quickly re-imaged), as well as having a good distributed anti-virus solution.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Dobrynski Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Having sat up until the wee hours of the AM last night cleaning up virus traffic on one of my private nets (an inhouse private net at that) i was giving this some thought. It seems that as with all things, knowledge is power. While all of the machines on the floor where the net op's team lives where fine (mostly windows), the entire call center was infected (entirely windows). When i went downstairs and spoke with them i was suprised (ok not really) to find that none of them knew how to run windows update or had ever heard of the xp firewall feature.
