stentcharpentier82463 wrote: > I've got 5 PCs that I'm trying to use to train disadvantaged young > people. The problem is they are riddled with viruses and a firewall > blocks me from updating them. The people in charge of maintaining the > PCs won't fix them or give me the admin password (Win XP) to let me > install a new or updated antivirus the centre is being shut down in a > few months. > > If they were working, I could still do a lot with them, so I've been > looking for a good online virus scan - but they all try to download a > little .exe onto your PC first, and the settings on the PCs won't > allow that. > > Suggestions? Solutions? Links?
Hmm. If you can't convince management to get new IT people, then you might want to consider live CDs or even just installing a new OS from scratch. They're essentially unsupported anyway. The live CD option would be slower for users, and it might not even be your preferred OS, but I think it's just unacceptable to teach people computers and risk the confusion caused by viruses popping up windows, causing unexpected slow-downs, etc. Or worse... having them thinking that viruses are normal or expected on their machines. At best, continuing as-is will make their training harder than it needs to be, and perhaps encourage bad practices in future, which will harm IT as a whole. At worst, it could put them off computing for life. -- Lee --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
