True. Do you know of a GPO setting (or 3rd party app) that ONLY allows secure wi-fi connections?
________________________________ From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre - how is this possible? Sadly, with laptops, you are always going to be at a risk of something like this. At least it does have Vipre on it & is protected. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:55 AM, David Mazzaccaro <[email protected]> wrote: Ah, Yes. I guess a hotel would do that. Assuming we allow them to connect to unsecure Wi-Fi networks... ;) -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre - how is this possible? Road warrior; hotel network... Still happens... *********************** Charlie Kaiser [email protected] Kingman, AZ *********************** > -----Original Message----- > From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 8:40 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Vipre - how is this possible? > > Well, that makes me feel a little better. > However...now to the problem of this guy not using a firewall/router. > Would you agree that a machine should NEVER have a public address > assigned? > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:36 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Vipre - how is this possible? > > > I don't think that it was routed on your network, just reported by > Vipre. Probably what happened was that Vipre saw the agent on there, > and reported it before the machine got a DHCP address. Vipre acts > pretty fast on machines booting up on the network in my observation. > We have non laptop machines that connect via VPN have Vipre Home > Edition on them, so they never actually show up in my Vipre console. > If it's a laptop, it has Vipre Enterprise on it. > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:28 AM, David Mazzaccaro > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Not a DMZ address... my VPN addresses are all > 172.16.x.x and always show up in Vipre w/ those addresses. > > I wonder if this guy connected directly to some outside > internet connection (no firewall, router) and got a public IP > (which this is), then brought his laptop in to the office and > somehow vipre used that IP? I have no idea how it could have > gotten routed on my internet work though?!?! > Or maybe it didn't get routed, just reported??? > > My biggest worry is that somehow it DID connect to the > Vipre server... that would be bad. > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:18 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Vipre - how is this possible? > > > At some point it was on your wire and got assimilated > by Vipre. Because it's status is inactive it's not being > managed by Vipre. I see this all the time especially with laptops. > > Is this a DMZ ip address? Does this machine have > multiple nics with different ip addresses? > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:59 AM, David Mazzaccaro > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I am very confused/concerned as to how a > computer w/ an external IP address got listed in my Vipre v3 > console... > Any ideas? > > Picture (Device Independent > Bitmap)<http://no%20attachname/> > > I do not have "update from the internet" > checked for the policy that this computer belongs to, nor do > I have Vipre ports open on my firewall: > > Picture (Device Independent > Bitmap)<http://no%20attachname-1/> > > > > > . > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sherry Abercrombie > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is > indistinguishable from magic." > Arthur C. Clarke > > > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sherry Abercrombie > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable > from magic." > Arthur C. Clarke > > > > > > > > . > > > > > > > ~ 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/> ~ -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
