re: Network Sharing/College/Security
Monday, August 25, 2008 at 4:08 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Norm
(1367 messages posted)
I'm kicking myself for uninstalling the AntiVirus instead of just disabling it. If
I had just disabled it then I could of enabled it before I left. Unfortunately it's
2 hours away and won't be there until Saturday for a soccer game. There wasn't enough
time for me to work on it because they wanted the parents out of there at a certain
time.
I know IT there will be backlogged and it will be a while before they can get to
it I'm sure. Crap!! Thanks for the input!!
On Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 5:52 pm, Roger wrote:
>Odd that you're seeing an apache error...apache is a web server, that should only
>be running if you've got a web site on the laptop. I guess that the apache error
>was from the server that was providing the Sophos antivirus for installation? This
>all sounds odd, what if some other student brought a laptop to school that had a
>virus (not unlikely)? That virus is behind the college's firewall, and your daughter's
>system has neither a firewall or antivirus running. I have 2 daughters in college,
>both have laptops, and you can be sure that they have both firewalls and antivirus
>on at all times, both at home and school.
>
> My inclination would be to re-install the antivirus that you were using and turn
>on the firewall until the apache error is taken care of. There's too much chance
>of getting a virus without them. You should be able to configure the firewall to
>open the port that the antivirus software installation via apache needs just when
>they try to install (if I understand you correctly), and you would still have the
>rest of the port space blocked by the firewall. Turning off the firewall really
>isn't desirable or necessary. And I would have antivirus software running as much
>of the time as possible as well.
>
>-Roger
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