Re: Keyloggers in computer labs

[Brad Judy <judy () COLORADO EDU>]

If you purchased your Windows XP license as a volume licensing upgrade, or
have purchased Software Assurance for your OEM/FPP Windows XP license, you
can run a second copy of Windows XP within a virtual machine without
purchasing a second Windows XP license.  However, if your Windows XP license
is OEM/FPP and you do not have Software Assurance for the system, you must
purchase a second Windows XP license to do this.  See:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/f/f/2ff38f3e-033d-47e6-948b-8a76345
90be6/virtual_machine.doc

Brad Judy

University of Colorado at Boulder

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drake, Craig [mailto:c-drake () NEIU EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:19 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Keyloggers in computer labs
>
> 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