[BC] Company Laptops

[Sid Schweiger]

>>Just a word of warning that you and your staff need to be careful
about 
File-Sharing Programs and DRM on any of the laptops.
History has proven to me that the salesman have a tendency to make
"Innocent 
or I had no idea" mistakes that can wreck havoc on internal networks or
god 
forbid that a salesman copied or received an audio recording from a
client 
that is infected or has been breached by a DRM.
If the DRM gets into one of the Control or Production systems you have
a 
very real chance of destroying your Investment in your audio.
Remember that DRM is not picked up by most Anti-Virus scanners and is
very 
effective at breaching Firewalls and other security features because of
it's 
Root Kit capability.<<

Another reason to not let Windows Vista near any company-owned computer
in a radio station.  Its DRM management can effectively destroy software
and files the user has paid for and legally owns.

As for the rest of it, Symantec AntiVirus - Corporate Edition will
detect rootkits, as will several of the antispyware apps.  Using a
centrally managed antivirus solution, which requires a password to
uninstall and whose ability to be unloaded by the user can be locked out
at the server, is the best idea...and as a bonus, it removes a huge
management headache from sysadmins too.



Sid Schweiger
IT Manager, Entercom New England
WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WKAF
WMKK - WRKO - WVEI AM/FM
20 Guest St / 3d Floor
Boston MA  02135-2040
Phone: 617-779-5369
Fax: 617-779-5379
E-Mail: sid at wrko.com