You might be surprised. A lot of non-public schools in the Omaha area have almost no money for IT expenditures, and *if* they have an IT budget a couple thousand for antimalware software is more than they can afford.
For the schools I take care of, these 2 things go a long way: * Linux + Squid + squidGuard on a donated PC for content filtering * No one EVER gets local admin for their regular user account. They have to ask either myself or the computer apps teacher to get anything installed. As for network management... well, if you leave out the big public schools... To most school administrators and teachers all "computer guys" are the same. If they don't have some sort IT personnel on-hand they typically assign the computer apps teacher the "computer guy" label. When you go to school to be a teacher and take classes on how to teach MS Word to 10 year olds, they really don't go into servers & routers & switches - if anything major breaks the computer apps teacher is quite easily over their head. Sometimes the computer apps teacher is the "driveway mechanic" type and can fix some things, but doesn't have the training or experience to know that there is a way things *should* be done and a way things *shouldn't* be done. Sometimes there is a technical committee to oversee technical operations, sometimes not. Sometimes the tech committee is filled with the "driveway mechanic" type, sometimes you get actual IT guys. Sometimes the tech committee is on top of things, sometimes not. I usually get called in when people aren't on top of things and everything is really badly fubared. PS: Alex & Stu, you guys *really* need an educational pricing program! Jon Harris wrote: > I would like to know why there was no anti-spyware program and my bet > would be no antiviruse program on the machine? Who is managing their > network an elementary school kid? I know that when someone gets > anything like this the first person blamed is me and at my daughters > former school it is their network admin. Sure sounds like a lot of > politics and very little justice or science. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
