Library Computers and Such.
- From: dbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("David G. Bell")
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:54:02 +0100 (BST)
Elsegroup, somebody mentioned using a library computer to read suspect
emails.
In my experience, these machines are short on memory, use Internet
Explorer, and while they are set up to deter abuse by users, they seem
short on maintenance.
On my system, these emails don't even get downloaded, I have current
anti-virus protection, and I don't use Internet Explorer unless a site
really needs it to function.
Oh, and I recently ran across a system which allowed removable user-
media, but wouldn't allow new folders to be created by Windows. Pretty
obviously, it's a good idea not to allow this on the hard drive.
I discovered that there was a way around it. You could save a file to
your removable media, and folder-creation from the Save function was
possible.
(That system, however, couldn't talk to the Internet, for some reason,
even though it could connect to a networked printer. Known fault, but
the IT expert hadn't been round to fix it. What, I wonder, does that
mean for possible malware? How long might that be undetected?)
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