Re: Keyloggers in computer labs

["Drake, Craig" <c-drake () NEIU EDU>]

Gary,

Legally, you will probably need to pay for a license for each Windows OS
you have running in Virtual Machines.  One way around this might be to
use Linux as the host operating system, then use your current Windows
license in the VM. 

Craig W Drake
Networking and Distributed Services
Northeastern Illinois University

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Flynn [mailto:flynngn () JMU EDU] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:08 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Keyloggers in computer labs

Graham Toal wrote:

> Have you considered locking down the machine completely, and
> giving the students a fresh copy of a vmware image every
> time they log in?  Let them install a keylogger on the
> temporary image, won't do them any good.  Satisfies the
> academics requests for allowing students to install
> software.


Hmmm.  That sounds promising. I'm not that familiar with
VMWare. Will it work with the free VMWare player? Do you
know what kind of licensing issues there may be? Can we
buy just one copy of VMWare workstation, make lab images,
and distribute them to the labs using the player?


-- 
Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University
www.jmu.edu/computing/security