Well, I guess I shouldn’t really fault VirusScan, this is more of a Microsoft Installer issue than anything.
A little background: We run the campus site licensed VirusScan Enterprise on all our lab machines (and all of the admin machines as well). We started the year with version 7.0, then 7.1 came out. This is when things got wacky.
First, I built a custom install package with Installation Designer that had the same settings as we used before. Some workstations got the settings again, some defaulted back to the defaults (update weekly, Friday 5 pm), and a few even lost the scanner service completely!
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Yearly Archives: 2004
trouble ticket
Oh my:
hello
my connector was blocked by u
i don’t understand
why did u block my connector?
i was change my computer system
i was receive an E-mail from ******, *****
so i installed virus program(the name is V3)
why you are block my connect?
as soon as coule u open my connector?
spongebob spam?
Seems that we have been getting lots of hits on www.hoopeston.k12.il.us from hotmail and other mail clients asking for 1 specific spongebob related picture. Seeing as that is wasting our bandwidth for someone elses purposes, I followed the lead of others and replaced the picture: 
We’ll see how much mail I get….
tripwire on RHEL 3, gentoo
RedHat seems to have dropped tripwire from RHEL as of 3. Luckily, the wonderful fedora project is still updating it. The SRPM mentioned in this HOWTO builds clean on RHEL 3, so I’m going to start there.
And, this script looks promising, as the default policy looks a little crufty.
The gentoo policy is based off the policy that comes with the RedHat package, so it’s not much help.
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SNARE (and other cool stuff)
At the security class yesterday, one of the speakers mentioned some nifty free or free for non-commercial use apps that I thought we could use, either at Hoopeston or even Housing. After fighting these damn viruses all last night, I finally got around to googling for a few of the cooler things, and I found a few extra:
- SNARE – a eventlog redirector/collector for windows/linux
- Cacti – graphical frontend for RRDtool to simulate MRTG
- Tripwire – been there, need to again.
- Kiwi – Lots of windows utils: syslogd, serial port to syslog ‘repeater’, syslog event creator, etc
And so my blog descends into the depths of glorified link collector.
the internet sucks
- Email sucks.
- Don’t believe everything you get in email.
- If you get an attachment, DON’T OPEN IT!
security class
I spent the day in a crash course version of a SANS security class. Didn’t learn a whole lot, but it did remind us of lots of things we should be doing, but aren’t.
Hmm, which one am I?
CNN reports lots of blogs, not as many as possible, some active, some not. What a suprise.
And for those of you bored at work: A game.
Grandstanding
And I thought the flyboy act on the carrier was disgusting. This is just revolting:
Or, and this is a real possibility, we could see President Bush giving his acceptance speech at Ground Zero, he added. Its clearly a venue theyre considering.
As if I needed another reason not to vote for Dubya.
abstinence?
So, abstinence is going to pay off, huh?
Not to imply that parents shouldn’t be taking some responsibility for this kind of thing, but can’t schools at least give some education other than ‘don’t do it’.