They have EDU pricing and is why I asked, as do several other vendors. That said Windows Defender is a long way from CounterSpy but better than nothing. It just gets my goat when I see EDU admins that don't have a clue or politics take first in these matters. I know at my daughters former school (she was a student only) the admin did not think AV or any other anti-malware was needed. She was/is running a barely functional Netware network based on technology more than 10 years old. She did this despite offers from some parents to come in and assist her to bring it up to something more current. She dislikes Microsoft and refuses to update. Needless to day she was hit by a bug in early November that has kill much of the network and she was going to spend the entire Thanksgiving break rebuilding all the systems and reinstalling all the app's. I too am in an EDU environment and the pricing vendors like Sunbelt offer is killer for getting software in house to keep systems up and running. Politics do make a major factor and pain in all decisions. What can we install is not always done on the basis of cost but preception of the administrators. One of my superiors is a Mac head and questions all purchases and continually make comments like Mac's don't get viruses and other trash despite news articles that say otherwise.
Jon On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
