Re: UofRMachineCheck Control + Windows Defender

["Faigle, Chris" <cfaigle () RICHMOND EDU>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Liles [mailto:sliles () purdue edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:47 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] UofRMachineCheck Control + Windows Defender

-----Original Message-----
From: Faigle, Chris [mailto:cfaigle () RICHMOND EDU] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:39 AM

We are likely going to require that students returning in the fall have
Windows Defender installed on their Windows machines before being
allowed to
register them.

To this end I have modified the University of Richmond registration
control
to detect this and return the install status (currently of the Windows
Defender Beta 2 version).  

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-----Original Message-----
I don't have anything against Windows Defender but you are going to
require
that people install on their machine a beta product? Your attorneys are
OK
with that?

Sam

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1. Students are not mandated to put their personal machines on the
network.

2. Our policies clearly state that we can require machines to meet
whatever criteria we need for security reasons.

3. Student machines tend to get junked up with the flavor of the week
exploit, which is more worrisome than the designation "beta" by
Microsoft.

4. If we discover that a machine has an issue with this such that it is
unable to be installed, we can perform a manual registration.

5. We make decisions based in part on our own testing; hence the reason
I am making this control version available now.


Either we will or will not be comfortable with this or an updated
(release) version.  Regardless, we will prep for the fall appropriately
and this is one strategy that seems likely to pay benefits in assisting
with student privacy and system usability and decreasing help-desk
workload.

Chris