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[Jeanette Cunningham]

I have a client with a small access database on his personal work drive and
his own private folder on the shared public drive on the system for the
state government department he works for.
Everything went fine for months, then yesterday he got a note accusing him
of having illegal software on the system. The IT people just went ahead and
destroyed the front end, back end, backukps and folder of jpegs and other
associated files before they notified him. As he just bit his tongue (a
political move - he is not one to rant and rave), I am left wondering if it
was the access database or the lebans mousewheel dll that upset the IT
folks.
Can you believe it?

 

[BruceM]

If there was an IT policy covering various programs and files he may have
run afoul of that. Hard to know if it was the mdb, the dll, or something
else. Some system scans identify anything with code as a potential hazard.
If there is no policy it does seem IT committed a capricious act. If the
files are of a type that is not allowed it does not say much for IT that it
took several months to discover it.
I once worked at a company where I wanted to create a Word macro to automate
a repeated task (changing the text in a few table cells of many documents).
I was not allowed to create a macro, and when I inquired I was flatly told
that "macros are dangerous". IT folks are responsible for compter security,
but sometimes them implement it in a way that is almost analogous to
preventing automobile accidents by locking up the keys.

 

[Jerry Whittle]

Just another reason why I keep backups of my most important stuff on a flash
drive, CD-rom, or another hard drive. At one place I worked, the IT people
did some unannounced 'Spring Cleaning' of the network drives and deleted tons
of files. If someone complained, they were going to restore from tape backup.
The line in front of the IT office got very, very long especially when the
tape backups failed to work....

 

[John W. Vinson]

Just another reason why I keep backups of my most important stuff on a flash
drive, CD-rom, or another hard drive. At one place I worked, the IT people
did some unannounced 'Spring Cleaning' of the network drives and deleted tons
of files. If someone complained, they were going to restore from tape backup.
The line in front of the IT office got very, very long especially when the
tape backups failed to work....

Sounds like you could have made a pretty penny walking up the line selling hot
tar, feather pillows, and rope...

Sheesh.