Re: Viruses from Jump Drives?

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On come on Susan you expect computer use policies to be set by the types of
small offices that use SBS? It's hard enough to get the likes of Bank of
America to setup and enforce real policy your not going to get "Mom and Pop
Contruction Company" to do it and if you as the outside Admin go in and
setup a policy to lock out the use a USB drive Mr. Mom and Pop is going to
go thru the roof the first time he wants to do it and can't.

Can you educate the typical small office on "safe computing", not really.
You can try but 50% of what you say is lost and the other 50% is ignored the
first time they want to do something that you said they shouldn't. If this
wasn't the case then the amount of virus and DOS attacks being launched by
zombie machines across the Internet would be far lower than it is today.

Best you can do is give them a lecture, build and document your network to
MS best practices, make sure there is a clear understanding of what you have
and have not done security wise and hope for the best but keep an eye out
for the worst so you can CYA when all he** breaks out.


"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:eEhW9NGeFHA.220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> One would hope that the antivirus on your desktop would catch that.
>
> One would hope that one has a computer user policy that indicates that
> only authorized files should be installed back on the desktops
>
> One would hope that if someone has this concern the desktops are not
> running as admin and thus only scanned and authorized files are replaced.
>
> One would hope that the firm would do end user training to help inform
> their home users about infected machines.
>
> Gary Karasik wrote:
> > Users download files onto their jump drives from their virus- or
> > trojan-infected home machines, then plug them directly into a
workstation at
> > work, then copy files back and forth.
> >
> > Anybody have any rules about this?
> >
> > GaryK
> >
> >


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