Enterprise version for K-12 schools

[ghughes]

Concur that we need an enterprise version with central
management capabilities. As a public school district K-12
have lots of potential Bill Gate students who can be
counted on to use some of the tools available with the
current beta version to disable filtering and monitoring
software required by Federal, State and local school board
policies concerning students (children) and internet
protection. Look forward to seeing what is developed.

 

[Guest]

Yes, this software ABSOLUTELY NEEDS to remain FREE for
educational departments. It is invaluable in the lab that
I am currently testing with. So far has found tons of
things that spybot s&d had no idea about. Has
dramatically improved the safety of our k-12 lab, and so
far works fast enough that I can run it on all ~30
machines by myself in the morning before the 1st class
arrives! Would like networked version at some point, but
this should still remain FREE, I repeat, FREE for
personal/educational people. I belive if Microsoft can
make a network admin feature, and licence it accordingly
to businesses at a MODEST FEE (for updating signature
files bandwidth??) it could easily pay them off (quite
well for a low subscription fee/bandwidth rate).
This type of model should be seriously considered to
benefit all of us.

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

Hi G,
Yup. It sure would be nice, but there's been no announcement of Enterprise
activity yet.

As for your blooming script kiddies who wish to show that they are smarter,
faster, quicker than we old folks, might I suggest taking a look at Faronics
Corp. Deep Freeze. Their .edu pricing is quite reasonable, and the program
rocks for public/lab/library areas.

http://www.faronics.com/html/edsolutions.asp


Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

 

[Tracy]

I am a technology specialist at a middle school. Spyware
has become a true thorn in my side. Since installing the
beta program on two machines (there are over 300 computers
in the building), I haven't had any problem with those
computers since. As long as there are no problems with
the network or firewall as a result of the installs, I
will put it on more computers.

However, I agree, we do need a network version of this
program that can be loaded on our web server and
maintained by the district. We run Symantec that way, why
not this? So far, none of my students have tried to alter
the settings on it, but I would feel better knowing it was
at a higher level.

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

Hi Tracy,

I am a technology specialist at a middle school. Spyware has become a
true thorn in my side.>

Only a thorn? I thought it would be worse. Take a peek at faronics.com
and look thru the documentation there on Deep Freeze. We use it on the lab,
classroom, mobile, library & public pc's at my college, and love it to
death.

However, I agree, we do need a network version of this
program that can be loaded on our web server and
maintained by the district. >

No announcemnet yet, but keep banging the drum!

< So far, none of my students have tried to alter the settings on it, but I
would feel better knowing it was

at a higher level.>

Trust me, they'll try.
One thing I should mention is that it is capable of stopping scripts that
you might toss into start bats from teh network. Careful with that.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP