Brian Pendleton scribbled on Monday, February 27, 2006 2:11 PM:
> Anyway, while we're on the subject of campus networks. I'm a little > curious about the worm/virus population on the networks here (it is a > college network after all). Anyone done any checking into that? I > think I may have to get snort up and check it out a bit. You are probably in prime position to see them. Heritage and DT are the last of campus housing to be on hubs, and the virus population is mostly apparent to OIT. If someone gets a virus/spyware, it usually brings down the network in the building and the security team sniffs them out pretty quickly. I'd be interested in what you find crawling out there, though I wouldn't be surprised if you don't see a whole lot. The fact that symantec is offered free and that every time you (or anyone else on campus) authenticates you are scanned for known trojan/worm ports has cut down drastically on virus/worm activity from what I hear. Brian > > -Brian > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of > their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or > BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
