Doctors are worse for sure. I used to admin at a civil engineering firm. I now mostly work with doctors, medical staff and a bunch of social workers. Social workers are the worst of the lot, I swear! ;-)
James ----- Original Message ----- From: paul chinnery To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:04 AM Subject: RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild A third of my users are doctors. I wonder which group is harder to work with: engineers or doctors? > Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:51:09 -0700 > Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Truth. However, there are also political and training issues. > > 1) We haven't, as a company (nor within IT) figured out how to make > our standard apps work under under non-admin accounts. This will take > time and resources to figure out, and then further time and resources > to figure out how to "productionise" the application of these settings > and apply them across the domain, including two offices overseas. > > 2) A large portion of our users are engineers who have a rabid > aversion to the idea that they can't be admins on their own boxes. I'm > in the (multi-year!) process of simply trying to convince engineering > managers that none of the staff need two NICs in their boxes - one for > the production LAN and one for the test/dev LAN. > > 3) The overseas offices are also politically resistant to this idea. > > While I agree that the load would be lessened, and we'd have a much > better managed and more secure environment, this is not a trivial > effort, and at times I despair. But, I persist, and have it as a goal > to work toward this fiscal year. > > The first step is to get signoff by company management, in the form of > an actual policy - something of which there are no good examples. > There are practices and recommendations regarding IT, but very little > in the way of a real IT policy that has been agreed to by management. > > Kurt > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 07:52, Jonathan Link<[email protected]> wrote: > > After taking local admin rights away from users my plate is less full. > > YMMV. > > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Yes, unfortunately, all our users are admins. It sucks, but I use it > >> to my advantage when I can. > >> > >> The reason we've not done a GP is because we haven't had the luxury of > >> studying to understand them. Our plates always seem to be full with > >> other things. > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 19:04, Ken Schaefer<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Are all your users admins? Otherwise, how is that logon script going to > >> > update HKLM? > >> > > >> > Machine-based startup script would be better idea, no? > >> > > >> > Cheers > >> > Ken > >> > > >> > ________________________________________ > >> > From: Kurt Buff [[email protected]] > >> > Sent: Wednesday, 8 July 2009 2:41 AM > >> > To: NT System Admin Issues > >> > Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild > >> > > >> > I'm just pushing out the .reg file in the login script: > >> > > >> > regedit /s \\fileserver\public\patches\videokillbits.reg > >> > > >> > The file was easy to create, in a capable editor (not notepad or > >> > wordpad) that allows metacharacter search and replace, such as '\n' > >> > for CRLF and '\t' for tab. I used the ancient, no-longer-supported > >> > PFE32. I really should switch to VIM, I suppose. > >> > > >> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 08:40, Eric > >> > Wittersheim<[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I'm pushing out the .reg via GP. So far so good. > >> >> > >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> The “Microsoft fix-it” is an MSI that I am pushing via SMS and is > >> >>> pushing > >> >>> fine (so far just a few test cases have it, but no issues). Beats > >> >>> trying to > >> >>> push out a .REG or something… > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER > >> >>> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > >> >>> (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > >> >>> > >> > ~ 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/> ~ > >> > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. See how. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
