Spyware and LAN client-server maintenance

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From: FRAN (fran_beta_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/13/05 

Date: 12 Mar 2005 23:28:46 -0800

Our school has just recently taken delivery of a number of Dell PCs
(1.7 GHZ, 40GB HDD, 256 RAM) that are going to be running WINDOWS 2000
NT NOS. Our system is set up so that our student users don't have
right-mouse outside of applications such as MS-Office. Students have no
right to alter "c:\".

We are going to ghost a machine and use that clone the image to the
remaining 20 systems.

Students have access to the web (with some restrictions imposed by the
requyired filtering systems) but our principle problems are spyware,
and of course the ususal viruses, trojans and so forth. We are running
Symantec with live upadates for these latter, but we still get a lot of
problems with unwanted plug-ins (eg "whenusearch" attaching to
Explorer).

A couple of questions come to mind.

I'm considering installing Adaware, and Spybot S&D on the original
machine from which the ghost will be created. Are these the most
time-efficient, user-friendly and effective Malware products?

Is reghosting from a pristine or defragged machine an adequate
maintenance alternative to defragmenting and disk clean up or are there
good reasons for going around and deleting unnecessary programs and
temp files before running scandisk and defrag better in some measurable
way?

I'm trying to ensure I spend as little time fiddling as possible,
because, in practice time comes to us teachers in bits and pieces and
getting half way through a task and having to do something else is
quite common.

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  • Re: Spyware and LAN client-server maintenance
    ... so any changes made to the base image are lost after a reboot. ... As long as the students save their work to a network drive, ... > maintenance alternative to defragmenting and disk clean up or are there ... > I'm trying to ensure I spend as little time fiddling as possible, ...
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