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Handling User Grown Machines on a Large Network?
matth asks: "Recently with the outbreak of the MSBLASTER worm and the startup of the college semester here in the US we've been hit by a big problem here where I work. Many students are bringing in machines from home, often times infected. The infections are so bad that they bring the whole network to a crawl. Yes, you can install ACLs on edge routers and put a router between the dorms and the rest of your network, but it still brings the dorm to a crawl. You can make sure people install the patches, but what if someone re-installs Windows, or brings in another machine, and what about NEXT year? From the Slashdot community, how have sysadmins out there dealt with this? How can you manage each machine in a network such as a college, where people are bringing their own machines in from the outside? ACLs on routers... but what about for the segmented network?"
Don't let them online. They're only going to download porn and trade mp3's and get you sued anyways.
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Simplistic responses to complex questions are stupid. Steve Jobs would have said Mac, instead of Linux and we all know that Mac addicts are a stupid, religious bunch of idiots, so don't make Linux addicts out to be like them as well.
Wait until a Linux distro gains significant market share... then we'll see how well it fairs against worms and viruses... sendmail anyone???