I like that quote.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Schorr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: blocking torrent files
"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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I think you need to ha
"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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I think you need to have the guy's manager walk into his office, close the door
and inform him in no uncertain terms of what the company policy is and what the
consequences for violating that policy is. Then when h
Why not either cut *all* his net access, or simply allow only what he needs,
which is probably a very short list.
jlc
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From: Michael Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: blocking torrent files
ok.. i
Torrenting simply won't work with good simple firewall rules in place.
But then he will just resort to Rapidshare and download the same stuff.
So then you should block that.
Then he will find another way...Which is why he needs to be warned,
and management should be part of it.
-Origina
Yah, you could make it so .torrent opens with some dump app that cant
process it, but then he could simply right click and open with ...
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From: Silvio L. Nisgoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: bl
But in this case he could rename the file to whatever extension
You need something network side. And, also, to have a serious talk with this
person ( backed by management ) .
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From: "Michael Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues"
Sent: Sunday, Jan
i was hoping for something like a software restriction policy that would not
even let him even open a .torrent file at all, regardless of the application
he's using.
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From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 9:12 AM
To: NT System A
Hi Michael,
The user doesn't know that he is breaking the company rules? and maybe other
rules? does he know that when he download torrents files that contain
applications or other stuff the company didn't buy, he can get the company
into trouble?
There are many ways to block torrents . the simpl
How about some firewall configuration that only allows connections initiated
from the inside ? Thus, people woulndn´t be able to connect to him. I
believe most trackers wouldn´t work very well when someone cannot share what
they are downloading
Maybe coupled with something to reduce the bandwid
Does your firewall allow to lock particular streams? I haven’t had an issue
with .torrents yet, but if it has like application/x-mms or whatever I could
block it with GFI's ISA addin.
Sounds like you will need something that inspects the packets like IPS or IDS
and then kill the packets. Or s
I agree. I long argue with my bosses at work that people caught misbehaving
should be fired. One person fired for breach of acceptable use will keep people
in line.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Boersma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 January 2008 21:39
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sub
It will work, Creative just didn't officially support it as it was EOL..
You can get drivers here:
http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/vista-sound-drivers/
From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VISTA, Print
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