This is a problem in our institution as well. Universities do not like to hinder any type of research. The decision makers of most large Universities are more concerned about "academic freedom" than network security. Yet when something is hacked and the University gets some press about it these decision makers can't understand how it happened.
One thing you may want to pitch to your administration is a firewall that allows everything outbound, but nothing inbound that wasn't initiated by the internal workstation. This will not violate any academic freedom concerns, and you will have a more secure network than you have now. I feel your pain. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:15 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Stopping annoying spam net send messages That sounds like some executive in higher education (possible oxymoron there) doesn't know his firewalls from content filters from a hole in the ground. There are countless documents out there which describe the basic security stuff every network has to have. Chief on the list (besides a good admin) is a good firewall. Start on Microsoft's site if you can't find anything else. For anything above the smallest networks, ISA server gets decent reviews as a firewall. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Tolentino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 11:03 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Stopping annoying spam net send messages I just started here and really cant do anything about it. Apparently some higher education institution policy/law not to have one....? go figure -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 5:37 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Stopping annoying spam net send messages On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, at 2:35pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Buy a firewall. (Which you should have done anyway.) > > Yep I know, I have no control of that now though. Just looking for other > options That's like saying "Yah, I know the building's on fire, but I have no control over that now." If you don't have a firewall, you have a *serious problem*. Your whole network is just begging to be hacked. Fix it. :-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
