Public access computers are different beasts from staff and home computers. Having dozens or even hundreds of different individuals use the same computer in just a week raises certain issues that must be addressed including virus prevention, security and privacy. In this session Michael Sauers and Diane Wells will discuss these issues and offer advice on ways to address these issues.
NCompass Live - April 8, 2009.
4. General strategies
Don’t allow booting from anything but the hard drive
(this is set in the BIOS)
Set a BIOS password
The public should not run as admin (maybe unless…)
8. Passwords: from good to great
Size does matter
Case sensitivity
Numbers
Punctuation & Symbols
Spaces are usually allowed
Changed often… maybe.
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16. Free options
ClamWin (Free, OpenSource, no real-time)
http://www.clamwin.com/
AVG Free (Free for “home”)
http://free.avg.com/
Avast! (Free for “home”)
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
17. Running
software like
Windows
Steady State
eliminates the
need to run
anti-virus
software since
once you
reboot the
virus will be
gone.
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