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Dealing With Laptops in a Business Network?

Posted by Cliff on from the portable-intrusion-vectors dept.

lanimreT asks: "Notebooks are a large problem for IT managers. They carry viruses and other malware back into the network and are less reliable than desktop PCs for more than one reason. Yet, every employee MUST have one for his job. How have other IT managers dealt with the various problems that notebooks create?"

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  1. Install Linux by schoolsucks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seriously. Any IT manager worth his salt knows that Linux is infinetly more secure than Windows. Therefore, any IT manager who cares about his network and his job, would only deploy laptops with Linux on them. As far as the users are concerned, if they are too dumb to not learn Linux, they should be fired anyways.

  2. Re:Deepfreeze by Solder+Fumes · · Score: 0, Troll

    But it does seem like the perfect solution for your TYPICAL laptop user, the one who uses it to check email and play Solitaire in meetings.