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Well, I just want some opinions, for these reason I think the points should be shared with those experts who give any answer.
The following message was sent to from the network administrators to the users of an Educational Institute:
"We notify to the users that the local are network is presenting abnormal symptoms. It could be caused by an unknown virus. For this reason the internet conection service have been interrupted to prevent its propagation.
We are working on the solutions of the problem to make the reconection as soon as possible."
Do you have any comments about it?
Thanks
Juan Carlos
The following message was sent to from the network administrators to the users of an Educational Institute:
"We notify to the users that the local are network is presenting abnormal symptoms. It could be caused by an unknown virus. For this reason the internet conection service have been interrupted to prevent its propagation.
We are working on the solutions of the problem to make the reconection as soon as possible."
Do you have any comments about it?
Thanks
Juan Carlos
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por = poor...I'm not claiming to be typo nor grammar-error free myself ;)
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- fixnix,I am very sorry for the awful english, I speak spanish. Sorry again.
-I used the double quotes to separate the (very bad translated) message sent by the administrator from the mine.
-I wanted to know what do you think about the decision of interrupting the internet access when it is believed that a virus is by there.
Juan Carlos
-I used the double quotes to separate the (very bad translated) message sent by the administrator from the mine.
-I wanted to know what do you think about the decision of interrupting the internet access when it is believed that a virus is by there.
Juan Carlos
Juan: No need to apologize...I interpreted the question literally (giving my opinion on the message itself and not the action taken that the message describged). I'm sure you're English is way better than my Spanish! :)
So here's my opinion on the action taken, as described by the message:
Perfectly reasonable. In fact, if the admins *didn't* take down suspected infected portions of the network they likely would have been making an error (depending on institution policies regarding proper procedures in those types of occurances).
Cheers!
So here's my opinion on the action taken, as described by the message:
Perfectly reasonable. In fact, if the admins *didn't* take down suspected infected portions of the network they likely would have been making an error (depending on institution policies regarding proper procedures in those types of occurances).
Cheers!
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Tolomir, one last comment, the internet conection of the institution was interrupted as a whole, not only to some selected computers.
Of course.
The safest option. Probably they will now try to locate the culprit, user included...
;-)
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Oh, I see.
Well we had a vpn account for each student, if you wanted to get into the internet, you had to logon to the vpn server. If you computer was missbehaving access was automatically denied.
This way it was possible to let the rest with proper working computer still connecting to the internet. This machanism was established to restrict the download traffic (5GB/month was allowed, > 5GB and your traffic was shaped down to 20 kB/sec) and to stop the complains from other ISPs claiming we were a terrible worm/virii etc spreader... (4000 students, in different hostels but in one city, can be quite a plague, not just to MPAA or our equivalent ;-)
Tolomir
Well we had a vpn account for each student, if you wanted to get into the internet, you had to logon to the vpn server. If you computer was missbehaving access was automatically denied.
This way it was possible to let the rest with proper working computer still connecting to the internet. This machanism was established to restrict the download traffic (5GB/month was allowed, > 5GB and your traffic was shaped down to 20 kB/sec) and to stop the complains from other ISPs claiming we were a terrible worm/virii etc spreader... (4000 students, in different hostels but in one city, can be quite a plague, not just to MPAA or our equivalent ;-)
Tolomir