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Re: hotmail password request tool (intranet usage)

From: Chris Mattern <matternc_at_comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:05:07 -0400
Message-ID: <3cCdnexfJuwI_PvfRVn-tw@comcast.com>


Ulrich Hobelmann wrote:

> peter pilsl wrote:

>> Deleting executable attachemnts and unscannable zips from the mail is
>> done in most of the companies I sysadmin. Some Users still click on
>> everything that has a icon and a promising name. MS-click-me-advertising
>> has done some braindamager to the weaker minded.

>
> How about the admins doing their job instead of deleting stuff in
> users' email? Like choosing a secure OS in the first place that
> runs the productivity apps the user needs,

Perhaps the admin could square the circle as an encore. Much, even most, of the time, the apps that the users and management insist on runs *only* on Windows.

> or running a solid
> backup-policy (when a stupid user fries his directory, boss
> screams at him for a while, but data can be restored),

Fine. *You* can be in charge of running the daily restores, while the boss yells at you for the downtime, and the user yells at you for the lost work that was done since the last backup. You let this crap through and you will spend all day restoring one user after another.

> or running
> stuff in a sandbox (well, on Windows that probably means that you
> ONLY fry your own directory).

And how, exactly, are you going to get your apps to run, considering that all of them require admin access to run at all?

Do you have any *practical* alternatives?
>

-- 
             Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"
Received on Wed Apr 20 2005 - 09:05:07 CDT

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