[LINK] Fwd: UCSB bans student Win2k & win-nt from School Net

[Roger Clarke]

>  >From the SANS NewsBites Vol. 4 Num. 42 (October 16 SANS NewsBites)
>
>   -- 8 October 2002  UCSB Students Not Allowed To Connect Windows 2000
>                      or NT Machines to School Net
>  Students at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) may
>  not connect their computers to the university network if they are
>  running Windows 2000 or NT; many computers running those operating
>  systems were found to be compromised by malware.
> 
>http://www.securitynewsportal.com/cgi-bin/cgi-script/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=JanS.db&command=viewone&id=66&op=t
>  http://www.resnet.ucsb.edu/information/win2k.html
>  [Editor's Note (Paller): Note the words at the second link: "Providing
>  a reliable, high performance network for [every] user is the entire
>  reason we are here. Because of that, we have to consider the overall
>  health of our network when dealing with vulnerable operating systems,
>  virus protection, and network security threats."  UCSB's approach,
>  where protection of the community is valued highly, is spreading
>  and will ultimately lead to ISPs taking responsibility for ensuring
>  the people they connect to the Internet do not place others at
>  risk. Bravo UCSB!  If you know of other organizations following (or
>  leading) this trend, let us know so we can share their stories, too.]

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