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to: Geo.
from: Joe Hunt
date: 2007-05-02 17:40:52
subject: Re: Survey: 30% Of Businesses Have No Plans To Upgrade To Windows Vista

From: Joe Hunt 

On Wed, 2 May 2007 18:39:53 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Richard B."  wrote in message
>news:ds0h33tqgoa9qccvact1g011cmea27ggtb{at}4ax.com...
>
>> tighten restrictions but it is impossible, immho, to protect users
>> from themselves especially with zero-day exploits.
>
>I don't attempt to protect users from themselves, I protect company
>computers from users . Their personal machines are always infected or
>just not functional and pretty much all of them have come to understand
>exactly why their work machines don't have those same problems.
>
>We have a few laptops that travel, they don't get to connect directly to the
>internal network, when they are in the building they connect on the internet
>side of the firewall. (it's nice having our own ISP in house)
>
>Geo.

"We have a few laptops that travel, they don't get to connect directly
to the internal network, when they are in the building they connect on the
internet side of the firewall."

How do you enforce or manage this?

Thanks.

Joe

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